Productivity
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[British scientists are investigating, for the Ministry of Food, the possibility of using potatoes in the production of beer, thus saving grain and solving the problem of the present embarrassing potato glut.-Cable news item]. Sieg isn’t much surprised to hear Potatoes may be turned to Beer; In Fact, I’d hardly he surprised To learn that Means had been devised Of making a convivial Brew Of surplus Stocks, of Ink, or Glue, Or even, as Occasion suits, Old Tennis Shoes, or Army Boots The Principle appears to be, In certain Spheres of Industry, Not with discriminating Hand To give the Best our Tastes demand, Supposing we possess them-but The mere Disposal of a Glut. It seems, in spite of every Plan Devised by Economic Man To make the Best of his Resources, His ultimate and only Course is To find sufficient Means of usin The stuff he cannot help producing, To endless Disillusion doomed Because of Stocks to be consumedAs Need of Manufactures leads To Manufacture of the Needs.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 2
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171Productivity New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 212, 16 July 1943, Page 2
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