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...Modernize farms so that Latin America will finally be able to feed its 243 million inhabitants and thus no longer be in the unhappy position of having to spend precious foreign exchange on food imports...
...solitudes of its mountains, rolling plains, winding rivers and lush, tropical rain forests, it contains the world's largest hydroelectric potential, one-seventh of the world's iron-ore reserves, 16% of its timber and an incalculable wealth of gold, silver, diamonds and other minerals and semi precious stones...
Whatever has been making Lampy a dull boy, Lampy only knows. Many of the articles have been precious, sweet little nothings-lots of gilt and no lily. Things frilly and roccoco are fine, but they must be done with infinite care. At the same time, any piece that showed merit has appeared at least 13 times in the last 12 months. Now that the 'Poon is in the chips, it can certainly afford to have the printer make up some new plates...
...charming personalities out of the three traditional figures, Ibis, Jester, and Blot. At least we get a hint as to who they are any way they are there. LaFarge has exploited the Castle mystique for all it is worth. His piece is a good example of how to be precious and get away with it. Unfortunately, he doesn't get away with anything in another piece written in Holden Caulfield-like tautologies...
...countries to exchange their dollars for U.S. gold, the balance-of-payments deficit has severely eroded the U.S. gold stock. Today, in the unlikely event that all foreign governments decided to cash in all their dollars at the same time, the Treasury's $13.1 billion store of the precious yellow metal would simply disappear. Last week that unlikely possibility prompted the nation's two largest banks to call for some major changes in U.S. gold policy...