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...Wipe out the ruling wealthy classes...
...sons. He exchanged the Fascist salute with Carnera as the man-mountain lumbered into the ring. Then Carnera began battering Uzcudun. He battered him until Uzcudun's face was raw meat. In the sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers...
Each ticket is priced at 100 francs ($3.92 gold, $6 Roosevelt), thus making the total lottery stake one billion francs. If all this were velvet M. Bonnet could wipe out one-sixth of the deficit at one stroke. Instead 60% of the lottery proceeds must flow back to the public in prizes, 10% will pay expenses, only 30% going to M. Bonnet's Treasury to help pay French War veterans' pensions...
...solution is clearly to wipe out the highest brackets in the scale of rents and bring more rooms within the $240-$260 class. Part of the reduction in income which this entails will automatically be made up by renting, even though at lower prices, rooms which on the present scale remain vacant. The balance may be recouped, as the Council suggests, through a uniform tax of a few dollars on each of the rooms. As a half measure, this suggestion is an excellent one, and little need be added except a warning that such a readjustment should not be carried...
...pleasantly. Sir Frederick believes that British Broadcasting Corp., a government licensed monopoly, will take charge of such education. Sir Josiah Stamp, economist, was altogether pessimistic on the subject. Science, argued he, should be curbed. It is producing new goods which destroy the demand for old. That process tends to wipe out old industries, causes economic waste. There should be a referee system to control the exploitation of new "direct discoveries" and stimulate the production of "derivative discoveries" which established concerns can use in their business. One method of control would be to force the price of a new article high...