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...system from becoming geared to a war-time pitch, with the inflation this entails, it would be necessary to control industrial and agricultural production and to fix all prices. More than this, the government would have to begin even now, in peace-time, to build up a surplus of import raw materials as reserve against war scarcity...
...reputable British ornithologist, told how the local birthrate had soared after he stocked his Dumfriesshire estate with storks. Two housewives barren ten years were barren no longer, another became pregnant 15 years after the birth of her last child. His storks now dead, the Earl explained he would not import a fresh batch because "my workers have told me rather forcibly that, if I do, they will shoot the whole...
...stated that it had been primarily directed against Germany, whose air force was the chief threat to their peace at the present time. The rehabilitation of the Imperial navy has been planned for the defense of the Mediterranean merchant ships which now carry 20 per cent of all British import goods...
...solution to the problem have been suggested. First is the old recommendation for personalization. Like Grand Central Station, Widener is big, moving, and impersonal, and it is difficult to add a "homey" note to a building constructed for dignity rather than coziness. A suggestion of much more practical import, however, is that the Student Council, which has shed light on previous University problems, be called in. Since Widener is at least nominally designed for students, it seems logical that a library committee, functioning under the aegis of the Student Council, might correctly diagnose the treatment for those defects which...
...more lasting import were the remarks of three other speakers which, like chapters of a book, unfolded as clearly as has yet been done the most important basic problem of distribution, international trade...