Word: earths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bountiful Earth. New technologies which had fairly revolutionized agriculture were producing another year of bumper crops. Under man's ingenious hand, was the earth becoming more & more bountiful? Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug said he was thinking of asking for a "few hundred million dollars" to harness the sun to heating plants and farm production...
...United Nations, 550 scientists from 49 nations bent their heads over the problems of the old earth. They saw the present 2 billion population increased to 3 billion by the year 2000. But they were plunged in no Malthusian gloom. They could see, on the contrary, a day when the whole world would be better off. Science was the tool-but not the answer. The answer was man himself. Said The Netherlands' Dr. Egbert de Vries, expert on rural economies: "People are an asset, a natural,resource, and not a liability . . . Humanity has the right, the duty...
...Mediterranean Promenade of Tel Aviv. At dawn a 300-car cortege followed the coffin to a hill outside Jerusalem which had been renamed the Givat Herzl (Herzl's Hill). In groups of ten, farmers, workers, businessmen, old settlers and new immigrants slowly walked by and emptied bags of earth into the grave. A rabbi read the Kaddish (prayer for the dead). Drums sounded. Then the great crowd, estimated at 100,000, sang Hatikvah, the Zionist anthem...
...British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government officials. "As a whole," he said, "the African leaders are as embittered, confused and without hope as any group of men on earth...Grievances vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement has little influence-"though...
...Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life. God keep thee! Push not off from that isle, thou canst never return...