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What makes a President great? In plumbing the question, Professor Schlesinger noted that the six top Presidents were vastly different in appearance and temperament, but they had certain important things in common. All were identified with some crucial turning point in history. All took the side of progressivism and reform. None was a particularly good administrator. All were party men, and all but Washington had set their hearts on becoming President...
Output per farm worker in the U.S. has been multiplied 2½ times in the past 50 years. In 1787 it took 19 American farm people to support one other person, in addition to feeding themselves. Nowadays 19 farm people can support themselves, 56 other Americans and ten persons in other countries...
Stalin's remarks took the form of a question-answer dialogue with an unnamed correspondent of Pravda, almost as if the Soviet generalissimo were talking to himself. Excerpts...
...modest article (which never reached a large public), Dr. Robert M. Salter, chief of the U.S. Agricultural Research Administration, figured how much food the world could produce if it really tried. As a mark to shoot at, he took an estimate by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) of how much food it would take to give every person living in 1960 an "adequate diet" (about what Americans get). By 1960, FAO believes, there will be 2,250 million people on the planet (other experts consider this estimate high). They will need 21% more cereals than...
Mukden was lost. The Nationalist withdrawal had turned into a rout. As Communist troops took over the government's main Manchurian stronghold last week, Nanking received the radio message: "No more reports. Cannot get out of office. Goodbye." Nationalist planes began to bomb the city...