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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Slower Population Growth Does Not Mean Stagnation. . . . The rate of our population growth is slowing down, but . . . through all the rise and fall of rate of population growth, an actual growth of population has taken place. . . . The National Resources Committee of the present Administration estimates that from 1930 to 1940 we have realized a 7.5% increase in population. This is an increase of 9,218,000. Whatever may be happening to the rate of population growth, here are over nine million more human beings American enterprise must service than we had ten years...
...assume that a slow growing population heads the national economy towards stagnation has no justification in fact. It is significant that the most impressive housing developments of recent years have taken place in nations with slow growing or almost static population-notably Great Britain and Holland. This is significant for us because housing can mean to American economic life, in the next twenty-five years, what the automobile industry meant to the last twenty-five years. And better housing is but one of a long array of unsatisfied wants that we can take steps to meet if we can only...
...billion dollars. This income, which we once had, is now a goal of which the New Deal talks. But, for 130,000,000 people, a national income of 80 billion dollars is only a little better than $600 per capita. That, in the judgment of the Committee, is no place to stop. Clearly there is room for expansion of our enterprise...
...most wars of the last 100 years or so, Du Font's was a good place to shop for sure-fire powder. But for the last 20 years, Du Pont has been easing out of the war business, in 1936 stopped promoting munitions sales abroad altogether. Nowadays it has a less lethal line-and the Du Pont name is best known for stuffs like Duco, Rayon, Zerone, nylon (for fish line, brush bristles, silky hose), plastics, Cellophane. Last year vast E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., chemicals empire (total assets...
...four-and-a-half-year-old boy, nicknamed by reporters "the Kokonor Kid" (after his birthplace in western China*), who seemed indubitably to be the 14th incarnation of the Buddha of Mercy. His coronation as Dalai Lama was scheduled for this week. To make sure that the enthronement takes place, the Chinese Government appropriated. $30,000, sent a special emissary, General Wu Chung-hsin, to this land where nothing can be done without bribery. Last fortnight General Wu visited Tibet's three greatest monasteries, whose abbots supervise the selection of a Dalai Lama, and distributed "alms," tea and rancid...