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Reciprocal Agreement. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., the post office received a letter addressed "To a Nice Boy," with the message: "Dear Boy: I will correspond with you. I am a girl. I am 14 years. I live in Holland on an island in the North Sea. I hope...
...independent status. President Eisenhower accepted the Prime Minister's invitation to visit Japan on his way home from Moscow. Kishi also got a favorable reception in Canada. Only in Japan did bitterness appear. The big Tokyo daily newspaper Asahi responded angrily to Florida's Senator Spessard Holland's suggestion that Kishi get the Nobel Peace Prize. "JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace; he is a destroyer of peace." The Tokyo Yomiuri cried that "the people fear the treaty may bring them into a war." Sankei reported that "the feeling in Kishi...
...Belgian freighter Vinotra broke in two and sank in heavy seas off Holland. Its master and his wife, the only persons on board, were missing...
...triple her grain production by matching Japanese crop yield per acre. The difference between Indian and Japanese agricultural productivity lies in the Japanese farmer's use of insecticides, better seed, and vastly more chemical fertilizer. If all the world employed its potentially arable land as effectively as do Holland's skilled farmers, British Economist Colin Clark estimates that present agricultural techniques would support 28 billion people (ten times the present world population) at a European level of diet. "The basic raw materials for the industries of the future," says Caltech's Geochemist Harrison Brown, "will...
Norway and Holland were largely interested in solving import-export problems, and used the new system along with their national income accounts to see what effect a shift in the trade balance would have on industry. Several South American nations, including Argentina, Peru, Chile, and Equador are also using Leontief's device. Great Britain has employed it for several years...