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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indian government's biggest objection to the Nizam is that he has elevated the Moslem minority of the population to a position of power and privilege. Of Hyderabad's 17 million, only two million are Moslems. Yet in the army and police, Moslems outnumber Hindus nine to one, and in other government services, six to one. The privileged Moslem minority rules on the principle that Hindus must be kept "in their place." For instance, in Hyderabad railway stations, there are separate refreshment rooms labeled "Moslem Tea Room" and "Hindu Tea Room...
...cool heights of Kuling, what he might do to save China from deepening disaster. Last week he flew back to sweltering Nanking with his answer-a program of fiscal reform to combat runaway inflation. China would have a new dollar, called the gold yuan, backed by $200 million worth of gold and silver and U.S. dollars. The fantastically depreciated old Chinese dollars must be traded in, at the rate of 12 million old for one new. The government pledged itself not to print more than 2 billion of the new yuans, and to back them up by a stern clean...
...society editors all over the world knew the name of Eugene Higgins. After attending Columbia University, where he was a classmate of Nicholas Murray Butler, he became a full-time playboy, with a $50 million carpet fortune to spend. Almost everything he did made news-his winning of the U.S. fencing championship in 1890; the time his 1,520-ton steam yacht was wrecked in the Madeira Islands (he won a medal for saving his guests); his fabulous parties ("sumptuous pleasure campaigns," the papers called them); his romance with Emma Calve, the opera star. "Mr. Higgins," wrote one society editor...
...papers in 1921 when, out of an amateur interest in physics, he offered $5,000 for the best simple explanation of the law of relativity.* Last week, when his lawyers opened his will (he died last month at 90), they learned that Bachelor Eugene Higgins had left $40 million to four universities (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia) "for the general advancement of science through investigation, research, and experimentation...
Inside the stars, where the temperature may reach a "scorching" 20 million degrees centigrade, thermonuclear reactions are constantly at work changing hydrogen into helium. The University of Chicago's Dr. Otto Struve, head of the 42-man U.S. delegation, repeated a solemn prediction: in 3 billion years some stars will have burned up most of their hydrogen, leaving the helium "as 'ashes' of this stupendous nuclear transformation furnace...