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...trade. Financial men argue that the world simply does not have enough gold. South Africa's W. J. Busschau, manager of the New Consolidated Gold Fields, Ltd. and one of the world's leading gold experts, argues persuasively that while the free-world money supply has increased fourfold since 1938, gold stocks are up only 40%. To make this comparatively small amount finance the growing volume of world trade, says Busschau, the price should be hiked, not just by the U.S. but by world agreement so that all currencies would remain the same in relation to one another...
...emotion that the U.S. cannot do much about is Latin American embarrassment over the political immaturity shown in the frequency of revolutions. Another is envy, and although the U.S. can help, it cannot bring the economic millennium full-blown to Latin American nations, raising their combined gross national product fourfold to the U.S. level...
...early 1900s lung cancer was a rare disease, but equally prevalent among men and women, Dr. Wynder told a Brooklyn meeting of the American Chemical Society. By 1954 the overall lung cancer death rate had increased twenty-fold among men, only fourfold among women (21,000 and 4,000 deaths respectively). Dr. Wynder and two colleagues compared the smoking histories of women with lung cancer,(105 cases) with those of women (the same ages) without cancer. Of the cancer victims, 61% were smokers as compared with only 29% among the cancer-free. Among the former, ten times as many...
What the U.S. says next at Geneva and the way in which Red China responds might decide whether there is to be a confrontation between senior diplomats at which Red China's fourfold proposition will be answered. President Eisenhower recently declared: "Now we must find out what they want to talk about. Then there would be a next advance and it might be . . . eventually you have to go to a ministerial level or meeting to get these straightened...
...demands were fourfold and explosive: 1) America must withdraw the Seventh Fleet from the Formosa Strait; 2) America must cease arming Japan; 3) America must not be permitted to arm Western Germany; 4) Britain's Labor Party must "arrange a more reasonable foreign policy along such lines." Thus, after ten days of "bottoms-up" and rice-wine toasts to the Queen, Red China now showed the lotus-tour Laborites its hand: it hoped to enlist British Socialism -which got more popular votes than Churchill's Conservatism in the 1951 general election-in its campaign to "unify" Asia. Privately...