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First major U.S. city to count more Negroes than whites in its population: Washington, D.C.* Latest estimate by the city's health department: 438,000 Negroes (53%) and 387,000 whites (47%), a shift from 187,000 Negroes (28%) and 474,000 whites (72%) in 1940. Since today's Negro school-age population outnumbers whites 2 to 1, while whites concentrate in the middle and upper age brackets, the Negro majority will rise even higher in the next ten years...
...supporters, members of the Communist-led "Peace Partisans" movement, converged on Mosul (pop. 200,000), near the ancient Biblical city of Nineveh. Seeing them, the local army commander, stocky, swarthy Colonel Abdel Wahab Shawaf, 40, member of a prominent Iraqi family (his brother is Kassem's Minister of Health) and himself an ardent Arab nationalist, began to fret. After last July's revolution Shawaf had proclaimed: "Naturally, Iraq will become part of the Arab Union." That was not Kassem's desire, nor that of the Communists who supported...
Charm on the Cuff. The new credit ideas bring closer the credit man's dream of a single card or check for almost all goods and services. The granddaddy of the credit cards, Diners' Club, has recently added health resorts, beauty parlors, charm schools, theaters from Broadway to Los Angeles, even boxing arenas and ballparks; for the fiscal year (ending March 31) it expects membership to rise by 425,000 and hit more than 1,000,000, billings to be $140 million, up 54%. American Express, which recently signed 3,753 auto dealers to honor its cards...
...year history, Mutual of Omaha has pioneered in many a new form of individual health and accident insurance, while making itself the largest such insurance company in the world. Last week Mutual, which has paid out more than $1 billion in benefits, took steps to grow even bigger. It launched a new hospital-surgical Senior Security Policy for people 65 and over. For $8.50 a month the Mutual policy will pay up to $1,600 in hospital or nursing-home costs, plus surgical fees. Already tried out in four states (Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas and Georgia), the coverage is similar...
...Criss, he set about building up-and drastically changing-the company. South Dakota-born Skutt studied law at Omaha's Creighton University, and in 1924 entered Mutual's legal department. When he rose to president, Skutt found that nobody could keep straight the legal name, Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, copyrighted a nickname-Mutual of Omaha. He plugged it widely in ads, was delighted when a Buffalo, N.Y. school pupil, asked to identify Omaha as a city, state, river or mountain, told his teacher: "It's an insurance company...