English subtitles for clip: File:0764 Frontiers of the Future A Screen Editorial With Lowell Thomas 01 47 51 00.webm

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And I'm reminded this is my
hometown and I intend to ask one

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or two questions which you do have
probably have and then I intend to answer

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that America for three hundred years has
been the land of promise for the rest of

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the world the land of new frontiers
new opportunities for all.

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Today the job of building this
nation geographically is completed.

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There are no new front
tears within our borders.

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So here are my questions and yours.

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What new horizons can we look now
where our Kamala's opportunities.

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What's ahead in America for
you for your children.

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It is not a difficult assignment
to answer these questions.

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The front tears of the future are not
on any map they are in the minds of men

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and in the test tubes

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and laboratories of the great industries
we have built up here in America but no

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but the head of that many
of us have had our doubts.

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There are those who say today that
opportunities have ceased to exist.

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Things are plenty. We have
everything and not enough.

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There can be no more progress.

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Almost one hundred years ago in the
old patent office in Washington the

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commissioner of patents was just as
pessimistic as any one you have ever heard.

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Then been took.

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From Texas credulity.

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And cease to perceive that

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when human improvements month in other
words in eight hundred forty four the

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commissioner was about ready to shut
up the patent office and go home.

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Believing that everything
had been invented

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that industrial progress in America
had already come to an end.

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He didn't know

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that within two years he would be signing
a patent on a method of vulcanizing

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rubber from which there was destined to
spring up hundreds of new industries

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and jobs by the thousands that were
made possible through this one idea.

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The pessimist so that they
never dreamed of the marvels

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that would soon follow their predictions.

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They overlooked run on important
fact that we should know so well

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that is as long as there is a
problem or a desire to be met.

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American ingenuity will not rest today
industry in this country is spending

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over two hundred million dollars
a year to improve or products

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and develop new products which
means new industries new jobs.

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They are working constantly
to solve problems

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and find ways to give us what we want better
things for less money than any one of

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thousands of test tubes of today.

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There may be a million job
opportunities for tomorrow.

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Fifteen years after Commissioner Ellsworth
gloomy predictions surprised skeptics by

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pumping petroleum out of the hills of
Pennsylvania for years the oil men cursed

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gasoline. It was a troublesome byproduct.

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And they dumped millions of
gallons of it into the rivers

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and streams then science discovered
that gasoline was liquid horsepower.

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You know what has happened since then
gasoline we demand today furnishes employment

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to millions of people.

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And these are only two products
obtained from crude petroleum which was

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industrially worthless until American
technicians changed the barrel of oil into

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the Latins lamp which can produce an endless
variety of valuable product look at

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just a few things created by scientific
research in laboratories operated by the

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oil companies of America by products
of petroleum from which have sprung up

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entirely new industry face cream
for the ladies special tasteless

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waxes for certain kinds of candy
wax for sealing letters so

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fertilizers for the farmer Koch

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streets and highways and on this front air
opportunities have hardly been touched.

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But let's get out of the oil business and
find out what's going on in other fields.

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I've been around a lot and talked
with some of these research men

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and they won't make predictions
because they deal only in fact

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but they're on their way to new ideas
new things that will astonish us

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when they are announced. For instance
one research man said recently.

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There is one research

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that has been going on for a long time
to find out why we can see through glad

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you say it's transparent

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and that's merely an adjective not a reason
engineers think they know what fiction

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is

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but actually they can't yet tell you what
it is any more than they can tell you what

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electricity is in one big word Ari they're
trying to find out what makes grass

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green and the answer to

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that question may keep us industrially
busy for years with automobile engines.

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We just released od the indication is.

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That someday they will give us
three hundred miles to the gallon.

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And as far as I could like well
so many improvements to come.

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That will make today's lighting
look like the tallow candle.

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We have discovered how to manufacture
rubber from coal limestone salt

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and water from the product of cotton we
are spending a supplement finer than

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that of the silk worm out of water

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and coal we produce upright allies for
which Americans formerly had to travel

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thousands of miles.

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And we have found the
colors of the rainbow

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and the price humans
nature the sweet spot.

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Chemistry is creating new and more
comfortable cool giving you finer

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and yet that's actually people motor
cars that have close pit of food

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and sound health

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and what these laboratories promise in the
way of a market for the farmer baggers

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the imagination. Today.

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Just one great chemical company in the
farmer's biggest single customer buys

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annually sixteen million five hundred
thousand pounds of cotton fields from one

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hundred thousand acres seven hundred thousand
pounds of cotton seed oil thirty six

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million pounds of cotton Linter thirty
six million bushels of corn thirty

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eight of wood pulp forty million
gallons of molasses six

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million five hundred thousand
pounds of turpentine and rosin.

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And twenty three million
pounds of vegetable oil.

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These purchases in the aggregate represent
the yield of over four million acres of

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farmland which would more than cover
the whole state of New Jersey

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and the chemical Age is just dawning
already industry is making.

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Airplane propellors with sour milk
as an ingredient roads from cotton

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and artificial leather from the
same material the time may come

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when the American farmer will grow a crop
of automobile engines are rocking chair

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the few things.

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My friends are only a hint of what
American industry holes in the future

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and remember every time one of these infant
industry clicks with the public gives

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you want you want presto a new
industry is created with new jobs

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and new payroll here are
just a few less the ends

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and unbreakable optical
lenses for your glasses

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and gasoline from C.-SPAN rubies from

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peach pits spun his from wooden
cotton artificial problem key

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but not with the whole Vennegoor
from Coke and limestone.

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Waste gases from the factory converted
into antifreeze for your car.

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Cheap have been raised on chemicals from
the laboratory plants grown without saw it

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from cotton sour milk formaldehyde

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and carbolic acid all scramble together in
the laboratory come nice little costume

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jewelry fountain pens
billiard ball telephone parts

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and many other plastics
out beauty and utility.

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So maybe the moon is made of green cheese

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and even if it isn't the explorers of the
research laboratories can probably find a

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way to run one thing is certain it is
these research activities sponsored by

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American industry that
have brought us this far

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and will continue to create
further progress for us

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and the industrial scientists

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and engineers are the pioneers a present
day America the creators of progress new

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industries

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and new jobs train your sights on the
laboratories of American industry to see

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what's ahead. It's a big
weltering future all right.

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Not because there are no new front tears

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but because there are so
many so on with progress.