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...short, everything depends on foreign aid. India, with the world's 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...
...cigar merchant, Ernest Oppenheimer at his death was undisputed boss of the cartel that controls 95% of the world's diamond production, and he controlled more than 90 other companies worth an estimated $2.5 billion. His empire included coal, uranium, copper and some of the world's largest gold mines. Financially, he was the most powerful man in all Africa...
...Cross yesterday began collecting blood donations in what is so far "one of the largest peace-time blood drives in the history of Harvard," according to Stanley B. Lyss '58, co-chairman of the P.B.H. blood drive...
AVIATION Boeing's New Jet United Air Lines, the nation's second-largest carrier (first: American Airlines), took another step into the jet age. Last week it ordered ten Douglas DC-8 long-range and eleven new-type, Boeing 720 medium-range jet aircraft to be delivered in 1960. Total cost: $100 million, to be added to the $175 million worth of DC-8s ordered for delivery in 1959. To finance the new jet order, United got an additional $100 million in credit from a syndicate of 36 banks headed by Manhattan's First National City Bank...
Cinemiracle. A new wide-screen process, called Cinemiracle, that uses the largest curved screen to date, stretching from one side of the theater to the other, was demonstrated by National Theaters. Like Cinerama, it has a three-panel system of photography, but is free of the lines between panels and the side distortion of other wide-screen processes...