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Setting his sights lower, he estimated the potential food production from 10% of the podsols (300 million acres) and 20% of the tropical red soils (one billion acres). If the podsols were cultivated by methods now used in Finland, and the tropical soils by methods used in the Philippines (neither of them tops in farming techniques), their production, added to that of present croplands efficiently cultivated, would jump the world's total food to more than twice the 1960 target...
...Malthusians are not the only ones who have been wildly wrong about population growth. Abraham Lincoln, assuming that U.S. population would continue to grow as fast as it did in his day, predicted that the U.S. would have 250 million people by 1930. According to his forecasts, the 1948 population would be 430 million instead of 140 million...
...barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
...been called the finest theatrical troupe in the world. Some 30 million people have seen its 23,000 performances of 121 plays. It has toured Europe and the U.S. in triumph, and its techniques have influenced the theater everywhere. Last week, in its home town (where few anniversaries over the 31st are celebrated), the Moscow Art Theater marked its soth birthday with full official hoopla...
...plague-in earlier times called also the Black Death or the Pestilence-has been one of the great wholesale man-killers of history. Ancient Greece and Rome were helpless against it. In the 14th Century it killed 25 million in Europe, probably another 25 million in China and India. Boccaccio used the plague in Florence as a backdrop and excuse for his Decameron; 300 years later Pepys noted in his Diary many a detail of London's famed plague of 1665. One or two cases a year still show...