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...some tycoon of the betting world attempts to bring order out of the chaos of sporting unpredictability. Whether he succeeds or fails, there is a bad smell, and sports figures spend a few days paying lip service to the self-destructive tendencies of "big-time sport." Then--onward and upward...
...second later the main mass of iron hit the rock. It was traveling so fast that the heat of impact vaporized most of it. As the fiery jet of metallic vapor spurted out of the crater, the second meteorite struck and burrowed under the rim of rock tilted upward by the first. Most of it, too, turned into iron vapor and spurted into...
...make the quickest communication with all points of the earth; and it is based on the steel technology of our time as surely as were the pyramids in the age of stone, or totem poles in a culture of wood construction. The shining radiance of the steel and the upward-growing forms are full of hope and faith...
...into Washington. Labor unions and many consumers complained that prices were pegged too high and left too flexible, while wages were locked tight. Farmers and meatmen protested that meat controls made black markets a certainty. The price order disrupted commodity exchanges for a day, but it sent stocks merrily upward...
...Socialist substitute for a free market has no such flexibility. In fact, British Laborites explained last week that if they met the Argentine price, they would have to revise upward their meat contracts with Australia and New Zealand. Government bulk buying, supposed to get cheap meat, was getting close to no meat...