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Puerto Rico's sugar economy cannot support a population (2,045,000 in 1946) which has more than doubled since the U.S. took the island as a dependency after the Spanish-American War. About one in eight employable Puerto Ricans has no job. The average family wage: $20 a...
Within a century, O.E. Baker warned in a pamphlet on "the population prospect in relation to the world's agricultural resources," America will face an Orient doubled in population, and a united Europe with ten times more people. This country will be supporting a smaller, more aged population, "weak-ened...
From all over the Colonies and from England came gifts of books from scholars, preachers, writers. The library doubled in size every 20 years. Today, as "trustee for the learned world" (as it likes to call itself), Harvard's library spends more money a year on the upkeep of...
In the last 16 years, Detroit's Negro population has increased by 75% (to 210,000). Los Angeles' 133,000 Negro population has more than doubled since 1940. Between 1930 and 1945, New York's Negro population has increased 67% (to 547,000); Chicago's by...
Even the Caspar Milquetoasts in the crowd were howling for Zale to make the kill. But the heat and his 33 years (eight more than Rocky) began to tell on ex-Steelworker Tony; he weakened badly in the fifth round. Early in the sixth, one of Graziano's swing...