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...depends for food, are lamentably ineffective as food-producing machines. They work only part of the day and only part of the year. They take up a vast amount of "floor space" and occupy the better part of the world's labor. Their average efficiency in turning sunlight into food energy is only about...
...already partly synthetic. It will be simple for chemists to manufacture food fats out of synthetic glycerin and paraffins from petroleum. Starch will be more difficult because plants produce it cheaply, but Rosin is confident that synthetic starch can be made out of carbon monoxide acted upon by sunlight...
Depression followed, and an ambitious male secretary at a major studio who asked for a raise was awarded a key to the executive washroom instead. The day was saved again by Technicolor, and in the sunlight of wartime prosperity, Hollywood made hay. But after the war the foreign market collapsed, and the domestic box office took a dive. The U.S. Supreme Court divorced the movie producers from their theater chains, and the studios no longer had a guaranteed outlet for their pictures...
...clouds from losing heat as rapidly as before. The smaller temperature difference between cloud base and top cuts down the air currents which must circulate through the cloud before rain or snow can form. Lowered rainfall will make a drier climate. Less cloud cover will be formed, more sunlight will reach the earth, and the average temperature will rise still higher...
...Russian, is the first sculptor to make his work almost invisible. Last week a syth Street gallery showed a few of his sculptures, mostly pieces of transparent plastic put together in sharp angles and looping curves to form abstractions as still and shiny-and about as warming-as winter sunlight...