Word: doubledealing
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Malthus, who died in 1834, predicted that the world's population would soon outgrow its food supply. Then war, pestilence and famine, caused by overpopulation, would slap down presumptuous man. This did not happen. The world's population had doubled since Malthus' time, from one billion to...
Machines for Herr Donath. What is left of German industry is working full blast. Production has nearly doubled in a year, is now at 70% of the 1936 level. Coal output has climbed to over 300,000 tons a day. Steel production has risen to a rate of 7,000...
More for Stockholders. The boom was going as strong as ever; the Federal Reserve Board reported that September production had been the same as in August, just short of the postwar peak. In the reports that began pouring in last week, many third-quarter earnings proved to be much fatter...
Shopper's Guide. For the bright 1948 market the trade had turned up scads of new toys and, better yet, was peddling them at low prices. (Toymakers have doubled production in cheap lines.) There are such ingenious gadgets as: 1 "Juggle-head" ($1.98), a magnetic head which can be...
This year's book will be more than doubled in size because of the installation of 2000 telephone under the new University exchange. The New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is presently issuing 500 numbers each week.