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Where previously there had been end- less plantations of sugar cane , agave , and tobacco , where Europeans had wrested abundant harvests and profits from the soil with modern agricultural implements and the newest scientific methods ...
Where previously there had been end- less plantations of sugar cane , agave , and tobacco , where Europeans had wrested abundant harvests and profits from the soil with modern agricultural implements and the newest scientific methods ...
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In countries where coal mining has been going on longest , as in Great Britain , there may be less than a cen- tury's supply left . Of oil , our consumption is less than a tenth of that of coal . But there is much less oil in the world ...
In countries where coal mining has been going on longest , as in Great Britain , there may be less than a cen- tury's supply left . Of oil , our consumption is less than a tenth of that of coal . But there is much less oil in the world ...
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Beverley Nichols might have added , ' in some war that will be as purpose- less as the last , since it will leave each country poorer and more heavily taxed , with less work for the workers , less comfort for the old and less hope for ...
Beverley Nichols might have added , ' in some war that will be as purpose- less as the last , since it will leave each country poorer and more heavily taxed , with less work for the workers , less comfort for the old and less hope for ...
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Contents
GIDE GOES COMMUNIST | 70 |
NOUVELLES LIttéraires | 71 |
BRINGS THE WORLD TO AMIRICA | 95 |
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