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Phumy was soon isolated. Merchants closed shop; 130 tons of processed rice piled up at the village mill for lack of transport. Viet Cong cadres took over the schools, charged taxes-500 piasters on each of Phumy's thatch-roofed houses, plus eleven pounds of rice from each family per month. They also erected a 15-ft.-high concrete monument to Communism at the village gate...
Steel (1st eleven weeks) 22.1 mill. tons 24.5 mill. tons...
Last fall the Yearbook announced its intention to join WHRB in building offices above the garage, located on the corner of Plympton and Mill Sts. The proposal calls for a second and third story, to be occupied by WHRB and the Yearbook staffs, respectively...
...Tabora Secondary School, he got good grades and was converted to Roman Catholicism, but never made "head boy"-his teachers found him not enough of a disciplinarian. At Uganda's Makerere University, he won first prize in the regional literary competition. His essay: an application of John Stuart Mill's arguments for feminism to the tribal societies of Tanganyika. After three years of teaching biology, he won a scholarship to Edinburgh, and in 1949 became the first Tanganyikan ever to study...
...cause of independence, but he did not live to see the dream come true or his paper prosper. Smallpox killed him during the Revolutionary War, leaving his young widow Hannah, mother of five, to manage the shop. She managed well. In 1778, when the Courant's paper mill burned to the ground, Hannah talked the Connecticut general assembly into sponsoring a statewide lottery, and from the proceeds ($31,000) she was given $5,000 to rebuild the mill...