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...checked somehow, the earth's population will just about double in the next 70 years, says Chemist Jacob Rosin in a new book, The Road to Abundance (McGraw-Hill; $3.50). But Rosin, who is director of research for the Montrose Chemical Co. of Newark, is equally sure that a "chemistic society" can provide food and other necessities for an even larger population. In collaboration with Max Eastman, he tells how he thinks it can be done...
...began waggling his bat. Just as the pitcher started his windup, he let down the bat, stepped out of the box and elaborately wiped an imaginary speck out of his eye. The pitcher waited, ball clutched in his throwing hand. With a swagger, the batter walked over to the rosin bag, picked it up, dusted his hands and wiped them on the seat of his pants. Then he stepped up to the plate again. Just as the pitcher got set, the batter called "time," once again stepped out of the box and knelt to tie a shoelace, while the stands...
...assure himself raw materials, Joyce bought a linseed oil plant, a lead plant and a zinc mine, and built a turpentine and rosin distillator. Everything he did led to something else. The crushing season for linseed oil lasted only six months; to keep his plant busy the rest of the year, Joyce started crushing coconut oil from copra. Since the best market for coconut oil was in food products, he bought up seven food companies, including E. R. Durkee & Co. (spices, Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise and oleomargarine...
...enough butter (99 million lbs.) for the baking of 495 million cakes, and enough powdered milk (316 million lbs.) to irrigate the Wheaties of all New York City's schoolchildren for several years to come. There were also small mountains of cheese, soybeans, tobacco, dried fruit and peas, rosin, cottonseed meal and other products which no one would buy and the Government could hardly give away-more than $2 billion worth in all, and more coming in every...
...even in Plainview Lavern Roach still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...