Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot is too complicated to worry much about, but there are several pleasant songs (by Harry Warren) sung with tireless bounce by Doris Day, and some mildly astringent lines about radio advertising, mostly delivered by Eve Arden...
Assuming, as he did, that Adam and Eve started a geometric population progression some 6,000 years ago, and that the increase has been 10% per generation; if a generation is taken as 30 years, the population after the ensuing 200 generations would be 1.10²ººX2, or slightly under two persons per square mile, including deserts and oceans. The total would be less than one-sixth of the actual population of today, and less than one-millionth of the gruesome pile, packed as we were in the Rockwell Cage but 15 layers deep, envisaged by Dr. Bush...
...Adam and Eve started [populating] about 4,000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep...
...important agencies that went into operation were the industrial-development and farm-development corporations, and the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence homesteads. (Its costly land-purchase program has now been slowed considerably; the budget allotment for next year...
Among the other wartime experiences of Conant brought out in the article is his December 1945 trip to Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped...