Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Says Optimist Vannevar Bush: "I believe I said '10 to 15%,' and didn't specify the generation interval. At 10% and 30 years per generation [Reader McSweeney] wins hands down. At 15% and 23 years, I was about right.† At 15% and 20 years, the result is over a billion billion, which is much worse...
...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...
...program, kept alive by the 80th Congress, already had cost $200 million for the 1948 crop and would cost more before the year's output is disposed of. What's more, the Government's mass buying of 1948 potatoes (now at a husky $2.90 to $3.50 per bushel) was keeping prices up in the grocery store, so taxpayers were getting socked twice for every potato they bought...
...city of Bay St. Louis, Miss, bought its first police car. It got the money by levying a fee of $5 each per month on 120 illegally operating slot machines. Said Police Chief Francis T. Hobbs: "The purchase of the car will greatly aid us in enforcing...
...ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the 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...