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...only a fraction of the amount I have asked for military purposes, but who can say that in the long run it may not have a greater effect?" With happy emphasis, he told his hearers some Point Four success stories-a $75,000 project for diesel-powered pumps in IndoChina's Red River Valley that assured a $2,000,000 rice crop, the work of nine American experts in raising Turkey's grain production by 50% and cotton production by 300%, the agricultural modernization being brought to 3,000,000 village farms in India...
...sheikdom is changing fast. Today, Kuwait merchants can supply anything from diesel generators to bobby pins. The streets crawl with four-hole Buicks churning up the fine dust (Abdullah plans to pave the streets). When K.O.C. came, there were four elementary schools, 600 boy pupils; now there are 31 schools and 7,500 pupils, including girls. The Sheik has built a 400-bed hospital, a women's hospital, dental clinics...
...this job, he bossed the road's switch to diesel locomotives, which he calls "the greatest single railroad improvement in modern times." When the switch is completed in March, Southern will have 847 diesels. DeButts now plans to turn his efforts toward modernizing yards and streamlining freight handling. Says he: "Every time a train enters an old-fashioned yard, before it can get out on the line again, the average competing truck has made a couple of hundred miles on the highway...
...clear national majority of the franchise . . . Women are . . . principally responsible for the education of the young of both sexes . . . Women inspire men to do those things which they would not do for themselves alone. I submit that men do not build houses or castles or beautiful churches or diesel trains, or even make soap, for themselves. They do it for, or because of, women." As a result of all this, said Mrs. Houghton, "women were never so important as in the year...
Among its new peacetime products are 1) an electronic tube which increases by 500 times the brightness of the image on doctors' fluoroscopes, and 2) gas turbines burning heavy, tarlike oil instead of more expensive diesel fuels which will enable U.S. railroads to get 4,000 h.p. out of locomotive units not much larger than 2,000-h.p. jobs...