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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vogt's "main thesis" is that the world cannot materially expand, perhaps not even maintain, its present food production. The scientists TIME consulted (in the U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils and Agricultural Engineering, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service) disagree strongly with this thesis. TIME did not deny that the human species is theoretically able to multiply without limit. Neither is there any theoretical limit to the food supply. But TIME pointed out that when people reach high standards of living and education, they tend to balance their increase with their means of subsistence...
...five new committees, working under the direction of Dr. M.H. Trytten, member of the National Research Council, will soon meet jointly and pool their recommendations. Then they will present their report to draft officials...
...present time only medical and special science students are legally exempt. All others are allowed to completed only one academic year...
...Dixieland jazz band will present a free concert in Lowell House Junior Common Room at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow. The group of eight plays in the old Dixieland style, improvising on New Orients and later Chicago standards...
...Definite, positive loyalty to American political ideals and traditions. Reds, pinks, near-pinks, and 'fellow-travelers' will not fit into the policy of Bloomfield which, while aggressively committed to criticism and correction of the abuses and inequalities of our present economic order, is fundamentally committed to the American system as against communism or socialism...