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...government intervention in industry. Telephones, banks, trains, insurance, fisheries and meat-packing plants are all government-owned enterprises in Uruguay. With accumulated sterling, the government plans to buy more Uruguayan railroads from the British. Businessmen already complain of a growing new bureaucracy, of obnoxious new controls, and the drain on Uruguay's resources...
...whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...
...Manhattan last week, 15 pickets walked round & round before the building that houses the New Republic. Their banners bore an almost forgotten legend: I.W.W. Most New Yorkers, if they remembered the Industrial Workers of the World at all, thought that it had long ago gone down history's drain. As a labor union and a militant revolutionary movement, it was all but dead (TIME, April...
...soon leaves the great timberlands behind and enters a region where the last, sparse outposts of birch, spruce and cottonwood gradually fade into the boundless levels of the tundra. Here is the world which "knows but two seasons: winter and August"; here great rivers of North America and Asia drain away and congeal into the titanic ice-blocks of the Arctic Ocean; here (and not at the North Pole) the thermometer has touched its recorded lowest (93° below zero) and the milk of Siberia is sold at so much per piece...
...Decreased enrollment next year will drastically reduce total revenue, since the Faculty "depends more on tuition income than on endowments." College registration will roll back to 5100 next fall and 4700 next spring in an effort to reduce the drain on teaching facilities...