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Excerpt from Better Living in the Postwar World

That is the most baffling question that confronted the authors when they undertook this venture into the troubled realm of prophecy. In fact, we may as well confess that there were times when we doubted the wisdom of a title containing the word miracle. We heard altogether too many dire warnings 'don t get people's hopes up. These things take time. Utopia can't be built in a day.

On the other hand, we felt safe in depending on the un equivocal assertions of such hard-headed businessmen as Edgar M. Queeny, who did not hesitate to say, The possibilities of the future, now that industry has embraced science, are so limitless that only one forecast can be made with certainty that the most extravagant prophecy will fall short of potential accomplishment!

We had no intention of making this book an extravagant prophecy. We think it's a conservative one. But we just can't say when. That 18 not dodging issues. We know that after listening to the perfectly sound arguments of people who have every good reason to know. For example, Walter Dorwin Teague, the noted industrial designer, squares off against his fellow industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, with completely opposite views.

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Excerpt from Better Living in the Postwar World

"Miracles Ahead - but when?"

That is the most baffling question that confronted the authors when they undertook this venture into the troubled realm of prophecy. In fact, we may as well confess that there were times when we doubted the wisdom of a title containing the word "miracle." We heard altogether too many dire warnings - "Don't get people's hopes up." "These things take time." "Utopia cant be built in a day."

On the other hand, we felt safe in depending on the unequivocal assertions of such hard-headed businessmen as Edgar M. Queeny, who did not hesitate to say, "The possibilities of the future, now that industry has embraced science, are so limitless that only one forecast can be made with certainty - that the most extravagant prophecy will fall short of potential accomplishment!"

We had no intention of making this book an "extravagant prophecy." We think it's a conservative one. But we just can't say when. That is not dodging issues. We know that after listening to the perfectly sound arguments of people who have every good reason to know. For example, Walter Dorwin Teague, the noted industrial designer, squares off against his fellow industrial designer, Raymond Loewy, with completely opposite views.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.