Word: indianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second-largest population (380 million, v. 600 million in China) and seventh-biggest area (1,300,000 sq. mi.), is an international giant. In a vast belt running across four of its northeastern states lie an estimated 20.8 billion tons of iron ore and 26 billion tons of coal. Indian steel production last year was 1,900,000 tons (v. Red China's 4,000,000 tons). Indian exports-manganese, tea from Assam, jute from Bengal and cotton cloth from Bombay and Madras-will earn about $1.3 billion this year...
...India is a flabby giant. Only one Indian in six is literate, and in the nation's 500,000 villages there are only 300,000 schools. Per capita income is $59 a year (v. $237 in Japan, $2,013 in the U.S.). Nehru remarked not long ago that nearly 75% of the electric power generated in India is produced by burning cow dung...
...light of India's needs, these goals were none too ambitious. If every development scheme now on the drawing board could be carried out, the Indian peasant would still be eating 500 fewer calories a day than the average American...
...Kansas crusader for free enterprise around the world (TIME, Aug. 12), has recruited 15 U.S. shareholders -including the Rockefeller brothers' International Basic Economy Corp.-to buy into his Private Enterprises Inc., which will make investments in private enterprises in India. New company is capitalized at $1,500,000; Indian sources are expected to match the company's investments...
...question period, Leach listed the services in order of their influence in Congress. The Marines, he said, have the strongest support. They are followed by the Reserve Officers Association. In an aside, he noted that he felt the Reserves "are designed for nothing more than Indian Wars...