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...fields recently opened, there was now the promise of an assured yield of 60 million bbl. of oil a year. (Controlled 1956 production by U.S. wells: 2.6 billion bbl.) Frenchmen sitting in Cafés du Commerce all over France, hoping that this wealth might cure France's chronic foreign-trade deficit and boost capital investment in North Africa, called it the "Miracle of the Sahara...
...neighbors are each other's best customers, but it is a chronic Canadian complaint that Canada gets the short end of the bargain. By the trainload and shipload, Canadian newsprint, nickel, aluminum feed the U.S. economy. The Consolidated Denison mine in Blind River, Ont. contains twice as much uranium as all the known U.S. reserves, and its entire output through 1961 is earmarked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In turn, the U.S. ships industrial machinery, automobiles and consumer goods to the north, and Canada's trade deficit with the U.S. last year...
...admissions to U.S. hospitals continued to rise in 1956, reported the American Hospital Association: 132 per 1,000, for a total of 22,090,000 admissions, an increase from 112 per 1,000 since 1946. But the average length of stay in short-term hospitals (excluding those for chronic diseases, e.g., mental illness, tuberculosis) was down in ten years from 9.1 to 7.8 days...
Ceylon's history has led to a complex social pattern, aggravated by accelerating overpopulation and chronic unemployment, Jeunesse Rajasingham told a capacity audience at the first International Seminar Forum in Littauer Auditorium Tuesday night...
Leon Masden, 19, of Shepherdsville, Ky., suffers from chronic glomerulonephritis. a severe kidney disease. Leon has lost 98% of his kidney function, suffers also from congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, anemia. His only chance of survival, say the doctors, is the transplant of a kidney from his healthy twin brother Leonard. Such transplants have been made successfully three times by surgeons at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. (Use of an identical twin is necessary to avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys...