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...draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
...other great zone of quake frequency is known as the Mediterranean-Caucasian-Himalayan circle. Along this and the Pacific zone scientists estimate 91 out of 100 quakes occur...
...most treacherous of major diseases, trichinosis, is caused by eating underdone pork in which larvae of the hairlike worm Trichinella spiralis dwell. Trichinosis, with its severe intestinal pains and high temperature is rarely diagnosed, more often confused with typhoid or rheumatic fever. Although public health officials have long known that the U. S. has a higher incidence of trichinosis than any other country in the world,* even the efficient Public Health Service did not publish until last year the astounding fact that an estimated 16,000.000 persons in the U. S. are infected with trichinae...
Died. William Butler Yeats, 73, great Irish poet; of heart disease; in Roquebrune, France. A symbolist poet known to few in his youth, a leader of the Irish literary renaissance and a founder of the Abbey Theatre in his early maturity, an Irish nationalist in his middle years, Yeats also became a Nobel prizewinner (1923), a Free State Senator, and was widely accepted, in his old age, as a world figure whose poetry and prose could be measured with the greatest produced in his time. His art meanwhile changed from the youthful rhythms of The Lake Isle of Innisfree, which...
Like its only big competitor, NBC Artists Service, Judson's Columbia Concerts Corp. has a stooge set-up which tends to small-town business. This stooge is known as Community Concerts. Columbia Concerts Corp. sells some of its wares to radio chains and sponsors, symphony orchestras and local independent managers, but its biggest single customer is Community Concerts. Conveniently, Community now functions as an "inactive corporation," is regarded merely as a division of Columbia Concerts Corp., has the same board of directors as Columbia and the same president-Arthur Judson. When President Judson of Community engages the services...