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...Model T, Detroit's automakers have worked on the assumption that their domestic market would continue to grow healthily. Now a subtle but profound change of thinking is taking place. No auto executive goes so far as to say that the domestic car market has reached a plateau, but most of them agree that dramatic sales jumps in the future will come less in the U.S. than in foreign markets...
Covering nearly half the surface of South America, and with half the continent's 140 million population, Brazil was the world's fourth largest nation (after Russia, China, Canada) until the U.S. added Alaska. With no deserts, tundra or rugged mountains, the nation is 80% rolling plateau, has the third greatest expanse of arable land on earth, more than all of Europe. But Brazil's potential is not yet scratched...
Soft Spots. Government economists agreed that a fast upswing will begin this fall-but they also expected some summer sluggishness in between. Reason: the here-and-now U.S. economy has nearly as many soft spots as a well-matured cantaloupe. The stock market is on a high but flat plateau. Steel production is trending down into its normal summer doldrums. Price discounts have softened not only steel but copper, aluminum, rubber, paper and chemicals. Most sluggish of all is the industry that since World War II has customarily led the U.S. out of its recessions: housing...
...this outside aid has made striking changes in Mongolia. The sweeping mile-high plateau between the snowy Altai mountains and the Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide...
Most men would snap at an honorary degree from the University of the South, popularly known as Sewanee, which for 104 years has been an Episcopal-controlled* showpiece atop the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. Yet last week Sewanee got a flat rebuff from its own Russian-born Eugene M. Kayden, professor emeritus of economics and translator of the poems of Boris Pasternak...