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Slippery Ladder. Ecuador has long been envious of the wealth that oil has brought to other Latin American countries and it has hoped to reach prosperity itself on the slippery ladder of petroleum. Little (pop. 3,000,000) Ecuador is industrially undeveloped, politically backward (3% vote) and poor (per capita imports amounted to $4.33 in 1938, compared with oil-rich Venezuela's $30.63). It was glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region...
...shared experience. Light reading matter should be read breezily, serious or technical stuff more intensively. If the reader knows what to look for and how to pace himself, he will save time. Practice makes perfect, says Dr. Center; after a while, reading may even get to be fun. Backward readers may even discover that great books are not merely printed paper but the communications of eternal minds. Readers who once discover that fact will soon leave behind the clinical machines...
Today, with its biggest enrollment in history successfully swallowed and with a gradual return to normal expected to start next fall, the University stands astride the conquered problems of the immediate postwar veteran influx and contemplates the coming problems of readjustment. Pausing only for a quick glance backward on a nearly finished job, Wilbur, J. Bender's 'Report On The Veteran" in the current Alumni Bulletin throws a penetrating searchlight onto the matter of Harvard, the veteran, and the future. As Counsellor for Veterans, Mr. Bender has ponted clearly to the problems which, as the next Dean of the College...
...Manhattan's National Republican Club he said: "A high tariff policy no longer suits America. . . . We believe in the increased flow of goods and materials and services and travel around the globe.... The alternative is either to go forward now with the reciprocal trade agreements, or to slide backward in economic isolation...
...democratic land system wherever he went: Caldas coffee farms are even smaller than those of southern Antioquia; the owners' families themselves pick the crop. Like the U.S., Colombia thus had a homesteading frontier. Social pressures had an escape; the free peasantry of the Cauca Valley counterbalanced the backward feudal areas around Bogota. To this free frontier is due the sensational increase in coffee production (1913-14, 600,000 sacks exported...