Business: Profits of a Prophet

Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole.†

From Manhattan Dr. Voliva sped on to Chicago, was met there by delegates from his Zion City, 40 miles north upon the Lake Michigan bluffs. Joyously they told him that...

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