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Played-Out Planet? The Neo-Malthusians admit that he was wrong. But they claim that new and frightening threats have developed recently. The present-day world, they say, has no fresh lands (or almost none) to cultivate. Its old lands, "plundered" by reckless exploitation, are losing fertility as their "irreplaceable topsoil" washes down the rivers. Farmlands cannot maintain their present production. The world's population is still increasing rapidly, and modern medicine, by cutting the death rate from infectious diseases, is sure to quicken this increase. The falling food-production curve, cry the Neo-Malthusians, will soon cross...
Such an expansion would require new railroads, factories, cities, and vast amounts of capital. Hundreds of millions of people, would have to move to new areas. But if the world wants to make the great effort, it can, by applying present-day techniques, provide food for more than twice its present population...
...booklet itself is an education in present-day foreign trade. After telling how the Marshall Plan originated, giving its basic features, administrative setup, and commodity allotments to specific countries, the book carefully explains the role of U.S. business in the Plan and the effect EGA will have on it. Author Gubin devotes 13 pages to an explanation of how foreign missions in the U.S. make their purchases, how to locate foreign buying prospects, methods of payment and the documents required. He tells how to go about selling goods to U.S. Government agencies and even gives a list of key personnel...
...aboard a ship bound for India, whittled the wooden model of a pistol that was to become the great Colt revolver. Sam did not (by 200 years) invent the revolver, but when he got into production he extended Whitney's interchangeable-part system in the direction of the present-day assembly line...
Lafayette County, where William Faulkner lives, it has become, in the novels of this most powerful of present-day American novelists, a symbolic place suggesting the diseased condition of the South and the entire modern world. In fiercely Gothic melodramas Faulkner has spun out his cobwebby legend of the South. Intruder in the Dust is the latest installment of that legend...