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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps, the problem of feeding the island will surely grow worse. With one of the world's highest birth rates...
Over the years a legend has grown up that Muñoz was a spectacular bohemian in the turbulent Greenwich Village of the '20s. The fact is that he only lived in the Village a few months. Through much of his New York life he and his young wife -Muna Lee, another young poet-were bourgeois suburbanites...
...object is to be right on facts as much as possible," declared Author Winston Churchill, who estimates that he has included more than half a million facts in the first two volumes of his memoirs. "It is also important to be right on opinions," he added, "although you can't be caught out so quickly on them...
...ACTH. The results were dramatic but, like the results of earlier work, they were fleeting. Fifteen patients, some unable to walk, showed great improvement soon after injections of large doses of Compound E (as much as 100 milligrams a day). The first patient was a woman who was barely able to get out of bed. By the third day she was walking with only a slight limp; a week later, pain and muscular stiffness had almost disappeared. But improvement ended when the drug was stopped. After varying periods without the drug, the patients were back where they started. Two other...
...experiments on animals it proved to be 50 times as strong as some drugs now used to combat histamine (the substance thought to be released in the body as part of allergic reactions). But its strength did not cause a corresponding increase in unpleasant effects, and it lasted much longer. Chlor-Trimeton is now being tried on human patients, may soon be available on doctors' prescriptions...