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Irony of the Syndicate's sudden discovery that it had a real rival in the U. S. potash industry is the fact that U. S. production has been subsidized by no tariff. Had the foreign producers not set up monopoly prices, the U. S. industry might have grown more slowly, but the Cartel's greed was all the "protection" that the infant industry needed. The Syndicate's final stupidity was to maintain its prices during the 1938 depression. As a result its sales to the U. S. fell from 351,445 tons to 193,609 tons...
...doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about the mechanism of mutations (sudden, conspicuous changes in plants and animals which subsequently breed true because of changes in the germ plasm). With the discovery of mutations some biologists decided that nothing else was necessary for evolution...
...Danzig's German Culture Week. Hotheads were disappointed that he set no immediate date for Danzig's return to the Reich, talked about "German Culture." Many Danzig citizens preferred to spend the hot sunny day at the Baltic beaches, leaving the still Free City to a sudden influx of thousands of Nazi and Polish tourists, who keep a sharp eye on each other's movements...
...buttons), the Senate voted to save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...
...Sudden suppression of Russia's 1937 census figures and the "disappearance" of statisticians who prepared them led to that bad internal conditions had lowered Russia's population, doubts abroad about Soviet military civil strength...