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...India now has one of the world's lowest crop yields per acre (the average yield of rice per acre is one-third of Japan's). India uses only a fraction of its potential water supply, one of the world's largest. Shockingly, India gets only a 20% to 25% increase in irrigated lands over nonirrigated...
Pacing the spiraling output of durable goods is steel production, which last week was the largest in history. U.S. mills, operating at 93.5% capacity, produced 2,647,000 net tons of steel. And many a sign points to the steel boom as being more than mere strike hedging. Steel's key customers, U.S. auto and truck manufacturers, last week scheduled their best performance of the year. Auto output neared the 2,000,000 mark, 34.7% ahead of last year, and truck production was 36.8% ahead of the same period a year ago. Brisk April buying has firmed industry hopes...
...Pole had fallen to U.S. Explorer Robert E. Peary in 1909, the South Pole to Norway's Roald Amundsen in 1911. Shackleton conceived a scheme of sailing to the Atlantic coast of Antarctica and sledging across the continent via the Pole to the Pacific. He called it "the largest and most striking of all journeys." The Royal Geographical Society was cool to the idea-as well it might be. The feat was not achieved until 43 years later, when Britain's Sir Vivian Fuchs last year took 99 days to travel the route, using heated tractors and reconnaissance...
Over a thousand people, by far the largest crowd of the season, watched the two clubs struggle to a scoreless tie in the first half. The Crimson suffered a harsh disappointment when wing forward Dave Kiely dribbled the ball over the Indians' goal line only to be tackled before he could touch it down...
Third baseman Mike Drummey picked up two doubles, and captain and short-stop Dave Morse drove in two runs as the Crimson capitalized on seven walks and two Andover errors to produce the largest run total amassed by a Freshman team in several years...