Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...population. But if all the colonies unite, total population will be about 4,500,000 (double Puerto Rico's). The larger mainland colonies, if they decide to join, have ample room for the surplus population of such overcrowded islands as Barbados (1,246 inhabitants per sq. mi...
...supplement the old fields the foreign companies left them. Already, U.S. crews working for Pemex were drilling in the swamps west of Tenixtepec in hopes of tapping new underground pools. Next week, a new ten-inch pipeline will carry the first Tenixtepec oil into Pemex' 1,200-mi. national network...
...worst trap of all is the crowded Kikuyu reserve, north of Nairobi. Scores of thousands of Kukes live there; and in the fertile areas, population density reaches 600 per sq. mi. Every scrap of arable land is terraced to the hilltops, yet only one Kuke family in ten has enough land to feed itself. The white holdings vary from a few acres (for poultry) to several square miles (for cattle ranching...
Stretching for some 190 miles along the southern slopes of the Himalayas, north of India and south of Tibet, lies the most remote kingdom in the world. The upland valleys of tiny (18,000 sq. mi.) Bhutan are as green and inviting as those of Shangri-La, and the passes that lead into them just as forbidding. Icy winds howl along the snowswept plains behind the mountain passes to discourage the traveler. Rugged barriers of snow and ice rise as high as 24,000 ft. Dense semitropical growth clogs the lower valleys. Fever haunts the forests, making them uninhabitable...
...paratroopers picked up stragglers from Nghialo and the smaller outposts, crossed the Black River in pirogues, leaving behind 350 sq. mi. of jungle abandoned to the Reds...