Word: thirdly
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Every day on the planet Earth there are 90,000 more mouths to feed. Every four months the equivalent of the population of Australia is added to the world. By the year 2000 twice as many people will crowd the globe. Even today nearly a third of the earth's population gets fewer calories than the amount at which British adults and children began to lose weight and working efficiency during the war. To feed the growing mass of humans at a level above subsistence, more than 70 square miles of land should be turned over to agriculture every...
...dozen years after George Marshall went to Bogota and bluntly told the U.S.'s Latin American neighbors that as compared to Europe they had no priority for U.S. aid, the U.S. last week returned to the same city and picked up the pieces. On this occasion, the third meeting of the two-year-old Committee of 21 on economic development, Washington sent its best delegation in Latin American memory, headed by Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, who brought along the new $500 million Eisenhower plan...
Into the state education code, said the commission, should go a stiff three-R curriculum. For the first grade: reading taught by phonics, writing with spelling (now often delayed until third grade), arithmetic emphasizing basic principles. Science and foreign languages should begin no later than sixth grade. From elementary grades on, statewide tests should check on each school's progress. To jolt high schools, state-run colleges should report on freshmen performances-and school boards should publish the results...
...political confusion." From Detroit came the gloomiest reading of all. Writing of the national housing picture in Midwest Housing Markets, President Irving Rose of Advance Mortgage Corp. reported that "housing activity, both new and used, is in decline in most of the cities in our survey, for the third consecutive quarter. We may have to adjust to a lower level of housing activity than we were accustomed to in the decade of the '50s. Housing may have lost much of its usefulness to the managers of the national economy as a contracyclical weapon...
What about the rest of the year? Economists agree that third-quarter gross national product figures will show almost no increase over the second quarter. With all the recent talk of recession, they had begun to fear that expenditures for plant and equipment might fall off later in the year. But this week, to their relief, new figures showed that expenditures are likely to run at a flat $37 billion, only a fraction below what had been earlier expected. Department-store sales also continued strong, running 4% ahead of last year for the last reported week, 2% ahead...