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They still tell of a great bird, called Aepyornis by paleontologists, which used to roam the island until a few thousand years ago. Aepyornis was ten feet tall, could not fly, laid eggs bigger than footballs. The Malagasy still find an occasional Aepyornis egg and sell it for as much as five or ten head of cattle to the Frenchmen, who then sell it to a collector or museum for as much as five or ten thousand dollars...
...Honey was listed among the 14 essential foods which may be packed in tin cans (5 lb.-size and bigger) in unlimited quantities...
Cuba's estimated production for 1942-all of it bought by the U.S. except what Cuba requires for her own use-is considerably bigger than in recent years. But Cuba cannot in one year turn back the hands of the clock. In 1925 she produced 6,000,000 tons, but having sold only about 2,000,000 tons a year to the U.S. during the '30s, the best she expects to be able to do for the U.S. and Lend-Lease in 1942 is 3,800,000 tons...
...many ways this is a revolutionary book. It sets forth the basis of genuine idealism in practical terms. It uses the lessons of the past not to tear down everything we have thought, but to build up a new and bigger vision of the world. We must grasp these ideas, says Lorwin, if we are going to revitalize democracy and make it the dominant creed of the coming...
...Paul Poiret around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers were cluttering up her rooms that she moved to bigger (and swankier) space in the East Fifties...