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CHAPTER XXIX

"WOUNDED AND MISSING"

"Battered but Not Broken" was the headline in Monday's paper, and Susan repeated it over and over to herself as she went about her work. The gap caused by the St. Quentin disaster had been patched up in time, but the Allied line was being pushed relentlessly back from the territory they had purchased in 1917 with half a million lives. On Wednesday the headline was "British and French Check Germans"; but still the retreat went on. Back--and back--and back! Where would it end? Would the line break again--this time disastrously?

On Saturday the headline was "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked," and for the first time in that terrible week the Ingleside folk dared to draw a long breath.

"Well, we have got one week over--now for the next," said Susan staunchly.

"I feel like a prisoner on the rack when they stopped turning it," Miss Oliver said to Rilla, as they went to church on Easter morning. "But I am not off the rack. The torture may begin again at any time."

"I doubted God last Sunday," said Rilla, "but I don't doubt him today. Evil cannot win. Spirit is on our side and it is bound to outlast flesh."

Nevertheless her faith was often tried in the dark spring that followed. Armageddon was not, as they had hoped, a matter of a few days. It stretched out into weeks and months. Again and again Hindenburg struck his savage, sudden blows, with alarming, though futile success. Again and again the military critics declared the situation extremely perilous. Again and again Cousin Sophia agreed with the military critics.
1. How many people died in 1917?
2. What was Monday's headline?
3. Wednesday's?
4. Who was retreating?
5. Who did this concern?
6. Did it seem like there was an end in sight?
7. What was Saturday's headline?
8. Was this a relief?
9. For which townspeople?
10. Who temporarily lost her faith?
11. Had she regained it?
12. Who was she discussing this with?
13. On what date?
14. At what location?
15. As time went on, did the war get less dangerous?
16. According to whom?
17. Did Sophia agree with them?
18. Who continued to strike?
19. How long did it continue?

Numbered answers:
1. half a million
2. "Battered but Not Broken"
3. "British and French Check Germans"
4. unknown
5. Susan
6. No.
7. "Even Berlin Admits Offensive Checked,"
8. Yes.
9. Ingleside
10. Rilla
11. Yes.
12. Miss Oliver
13. Easter
14. church
15. No.
16. military critics
17. Yes.
18. Hindenburg
19. months

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In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers, in which the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, price-setting monopoly, or other authority.

The concept of free market contrasts with regulated market, in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods such as tariffs used to restrict trade and protect the economy. In a free market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

Although free markets are commonly associated with capitalism within a market economy in contemporary usage and popular culture, free markets have also been advocated by free-market anarchists, market socialists, and some proponents of cooperatives and advocates of profit sharing. Criticism of the theoretical concept consider systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free, with regulation being necessary to control those imbalances.

The laissez-faire principle expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages, such as those from discriminatory government taxes, subsidies, tariffs, regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies. Friedrich Hayek argued in "The Pure Theory of Capital" that the goal is the preservation of the unique information contained in the price itself.
1. what is a free market system?
2. are they commondly associated with capitalism?
3. are prices set freely?
4. by?
5. can the government intervene?
6. is free market and regulated market the same?
7. what is a regulated market?
8. what principle is mentioned?
9. what is laissez-faire?
10. from?
11. anything else?
12. what?
13. and?
14. aret there more?
15. please mention them.
16. who argued about about the goal being preservation?
17. in what?
18. did he write a paper or thesis about it?
19. called?
20. are free markets popular?

Numbered answers:
1. a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and consumers
2. yes
3. yes
4. the forces of supply and demand
5. no
6. no
7. a government intervenes in supply and demand
8. tariffs
9. expresses a preference for an absence of non-market pressures on prices and wages
10. discriminatory government taxes,
11. Yes
12. , subsidies,
13. tariffs
14. yes
15. regulations of purely private behavior, or government-granted or coercive monopolies.
16. Friedrich Hayek
17. of the unique information contained in the price itself.
18. yes
19. "The Pure Theory of Capital
20. no

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The Toronto Star is a Canadian broadsheet daily newspaper. It is Canada's highest-circulation newspaper on overall weekly circulation; although it is a close second to "The Globe and Mail" in daily circulation on weekdays and Saturdays, it overtakes the "Globe" in weekly circulation because it publishes a Sunday edition while the "Globe" does not. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., a division of Star Media Group, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation.

The "Star" (originally known as the "Evening Star" and then the "Toronto Daily Star") was created in 1892 by striking "Toronto News" printers and writers, led by future Mayor of Toronto and social reformer Horatio Clarence Hocken, who became the newspaper's founder, along with another future mayor, Jimmy Simpson.

"The Star" was first printed on "Toronto World" presses, and at its formation "The World" owned a 51% interest in it as a . That arrangement only lasted for two months, during which time it was rumoured that William Findlay "Billy" Maclean, the "World"'s proprietor, was considering selling the "Star" to the Riordon family. After an extensive fundraising campaign among the "Star" staff, Maclean agreed to sell his interest to Hocken.

The paper did poorly in its first few years. Hocken sold out within the year, and several owners followed in succession until Sir William Mackenzie bought it in 1896. Its new editors, Edmund E. Sheppard and Frederic Thomas Nicholls, moved the entire "Star" operation into the same building used by the magazine "Saturday Night". This would continue until Joseph E. "Holy Joe" Atkinson, backed by funds raised by supporters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, bought the paper. The supporters included Senator George Cox, William Mulock, Peter Charles Larkin and Timothy Eaton.
1. Who owns the Toronto Star?
2. What is that a division of?
3. Who's subsidiary is that?
4. What is the Toronto Star?
5. What kind?
6. What does it achieve highest circulation on?
7. What days does it place second?
8. How does it rank highest weekly then?
9. Who is first place everyday but Sunday?
10. Why not on Sunday?
11. Who is the founder of the Star?
12. Did he have a partner?
13. Did either of them become mayor?
14. Which one?
15. Who was Hocken leading when the paper got started?
16. How did if perform in the beginning?
17. What year did it begin?
18. When did he sell it?
19. Who purchased it in 1896?
20. For how much?
Numbered answers:
1. Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd
2. The Star Media Group.
3. Torstar Corporation.
4. A newspaper.
5. A broadsheet daily.
6. Overall weekly circulation.
7. Weekdays and Saturdays
8. Because it publishes a Sunday edition.
9. The Globe and Mail
10. it doesn't have one.
11. Horatio Clarence Hocken
12. Jimmy Simpson.
13. Yes.
14. Both
15. Striking "Toronto News" printers and writers,
16. Poorly.
17. 1892
18. Within the year
19. Sir William Mackenzie.
20. unknown