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Rural Resettlement. The Malayan government hopes to cure all its national ills with a heavy dose of economic planning. Among other things, it offers some of Southeast Asia's most generous tax concessions to foreign industries. Aluminium Ltd. of Canada is planning a $1,500,000 aluminum rolling plant at Petaling Jaya, Dunlop has begun construction of a $25,000,000 tire factory, and a Japanese Malayan iron and steel plant will be operating at Lunut by 1964. A massive hydroelectric plant, mostly financed by a $35.6 million loan from the World Bank, is under construction in the Cameron...
...paradox that has fascinated all historians-of reason beside unreason, of rationalism beside blind faith-was never more sharply apparent than in the century (1558-1648) from Elizabeth to Richelieu and from Shakespeare to Descartes. It was a time when superstition was rampant; a king's touch would cure scrofula, corpses bled in the presence of the murderer, comets signified disaster-although Galileo was calmly regarding the heavens through a telescope that magnified 1,000 times. Witchcraft (in which Kepler believed) was widespread: the Archbishop of Trier found it necessary to burn 120 of his fellow Germans...
...made no difference what ailed a man, or his wife, or his horse. The nostrum peddlers had a sure cure for it-and generally the same cure. With no legal restrictions, the patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America...
Alcohol for Solvency. "Nuxated Iron" made Jess Willard strong, then made Jack Dempsey strong enough to knock out Willard. A stomacher of unspecified construction and called the "Parr English Pad" was proclaimed "a certain cure for all malarial or contagious diseases." Manhattan's William Radam blandly said that his microbe killer "cures all diseases...
...their complicated figures mean nothing; the only thing that counts to them is the act of cutting through the ice and sending down food. Dillon put the same message in his own dogged way: "Although we have charted the way to progress, plans alone will not feed the people, cure the sick or educate our children. We must now undertake the hard and steady work of making a reality out of our dreams...