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...average, says Dr. Weiss, an acre of sea grows nearly three times as much plant material as an acre of land. Nearly all sea-growing plants are microscopic phytoplankton (mainly diatoms and dinoflagellates) that form the broad base of a "food pyramid." They are eaten by slightly bigger zooplahkton, and these small grazers are processed in the stomachs of bigger and bigger carhivora. The food in the original plants diminishes by nine-tenths at each eating. So when a human fisherman catches a fine codfish, each pound of its flesh represents about 100,000 lbs. of plants that grew...
...sales tax, since wholesalers and retailers might place an additional mark-up on their increased cost, and increased investment in inventories would almost surely develop at all levels of distribution. In addition, because it is often difficult to distinguish "finished" manufactured goods, this tax would have a tendency to pyramid rapidly...
...brackets pay the highest tax proportionately because they are forced to spend most of their income on living essentials, and 2) it cuts the buying power of the groups that buy the biggest share of goods, thus is apt to hurt sales. Moreover, a manufacturer's tax would pyramid if a retailer included it in the price on which he figured his markup. Thus a 5? tax on a manufactured item could get marked up to 10?. Above all, such a tax would cut sales now when there are evidences of overproduction and possible deflation...
...poor people," says Ruiz Cortines. He likes to compare his country with a pyramid whose base must be broadened by spreading the wealth more widely. The statistics-minded President reminded his people last week that 42% of all Mexicans are illiterate, that Mexico must still bring 19 million peasants into full participation in its fast-growing economy. In ten years, he said, the population had jumped 6,000,000, loosing new armies of wetbacks-illegal migratory workers-to cross the U.S. border seeking jobs. To absorb these people, said the President, Mexico must produce more food...
...Thunderclaps. Another "proof" of the British Israelites' theory has been drawn from the Great Pyramid of Cheops. For centuries busy minds have marked off the passages inside the pyramid in a scale corresponding roughly to the calendar (about one inch representing a year). Certain markings, turns and corners along the passages have been found to correspond with historical events, and were thus used for prophecies. World War I, the Depression and World War II have been recognized on this scale and passed; dead ahead has loomed the most portentous date of all-the date upon which the pyramid...