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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simon & Schuster found that the average mystery book in 1948 hardly sold above 3,500 copies, "poor bestsellers" seldom topped 50,000. At that rate too many books failed to earn their production cost...
Dead End. Thompson believes that the increase in eastern populations will "come on so fast that it will consume practically all the increase in production . . . Indeed, may it not lead to more devastating famines and a higher death rate as population increases...
...lives on. This recurrent theme is emphasized by Fairfield Osborn, president of the New York Zoological Society and author of the recently published shocker, Our Plundered Planet. "Within only three centuries," says Osborn, "the population of the earth has increased five times ... It is now increasing at a net rate that, if continued, would double the earth's population again in another 70 years . . . But now, with isolated and inconsequential exceptions, there are no fresh lands anywhere . . . Many of the fertile areas of the earth are today deteriorating through misuse, so that even the earth's present rate...
Some western nations may find their "numbers too small to ... compete economically and militarily with neighbors who are growing at a more rapid rate . . . too small to maintain their national culture in a world which under the influence of science is becoming one world...
...Spurs. Since 1941 Pathé has turned out only 50 full-length films, most of them second-rate. But it has done better with such films as Children of Paradise and Maurice Chevalier's Le Silence Est d'Or. With its dollars, Pathé was able to gamble that the Paris would give it a profitable outlet in the U.S. market. If the Paris pays off, Pathé may build as many as twelve other small, fancy houses in U.S. cities. Prosperity could not come too soon. In Paris last week, Pathé's dapper little distribution...