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During World War II, the Group was probably the hardest hit of any oil company. Bombers battered its European installations, U-boats sank its tankers. The Group got another blow when the U.S. Government forced Jersey Standard to drop all cartel agreements in 1942, thus dissolving the As-Is agreement at a time when the Group's market positions were left badly exposed. But at war's end, it rebuilt its damaged installations so fast that Jersey Standard had little chance to cut deeply into the Group's markets. At first it financed most of its expansion...
ASIA shows a drop of North American Protestant missionaries, under Communist and nationalist pressure, from 9,327 in 1925 to 6,919 in 1958. U.S. Roman Catholic missionaries are up from 1,305 in 1940 to 1,918 in 1958. Japan has proved one of the hardest countries to Christianize in Asia; despite an all-out effort, only .6% of the 92 million population are members of churches, split about evenly between Protestants and Catholics. LATIN AMERICA is nominally Roman Catholic, but "even by the most generous estimates," says Maryknoll Father Albert Nevins, "only about 10% can be called practicing...
...already in the works. "Anyone who does not recognize that we are in for the fight of our lives must be smoking opium," he told a huge Republican rally in Lincoln, Neb. "I believe we will win, but we must expect this to be one of the closest and hardest fought campaigns in America's political history...
Slicing the bloated state payroll by 15%, Combs next sent to the general assembly a 16-point reform program put together by himself and Wyatt. Among the measures pushed through the assembly ("This," said one legislator, "has been the hardest-working, lightest-drinking session in Kentucky's history"): 1) a merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe...
...Hardest put to defend his territory was the general surgeon-who, ironically, was himself the king of specialists little more than a generation ago. As orthopedists (bone and joint men) spread out from the big medical-college centers, many surgeons find themselves driven back from the body's extremities. As they retreat to the trunk, they find gynecologists, urologists and others staking claims on some particular organ or area. Only half the general surgeons polled still do orthopedic operations; only one in five does urological, plastic or heart-artery procedures...