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...underside of western Africa's Atlantic bulge, the British might have a shipping and supply contact either with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road...
Ocean, but the field of rocket fire would stretch south to the protected seaways of Good Hope, north to the Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
...large extent, alleviate the present manpower shortage existing chiefly in unskilled labor fields and could not budge high wage scales which are securely guarded by organized labor. Similarly, immigrants present no long-run unemployment problems, for industry, expanding under the impetus of increased demand and technological advancement, would absorb them. Finally, a sizable increase in our population and birth rate would do much to overcome a trend which now threatens to leave us far behind other nations in manpower potential fifty years from...
...labor's newly won pay increases was totted up for Canadians last week by Price Boss Donald Gordon. A diehard hold-the-liner, Gordon euphemistically called the next stage "a period of orderly price readjustments." In plain words, this meant price rises on items of every kind, to absorb the pay raises...
From this center of operations he sallies forth to lecture rooms, crowded with students eager to make the most of their chance to absorb some of the wisdom of the man who has been called the foremost legal philosopher in the world. The green eye shade which Professor Pound wears in the classroom has become a Harvard tradition, as have the anecdotes with which he spices his lectures...