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Only five of the 500 knew the answers to all twelve questions; every colonial official in the sampling flunked the test. One Frenchman thought that the Mississippi was the longest river in the French empire. Guesses on the empire's population ranged from 30 million to 300 million. A parliamentary undersecretary located the French Atlantic island of Marie Galante as "near Tahiti," which is in the Pacific...
...Navajos had been arriving in trucks and spring wagons, on horseback and afoot. St. Michael's Mission in Arizona, the heart and nerve center of the Franciscan effort to convert the Indians of the Southwest, was having its 50th anniversary last week, and from all over their 16 million-acre reservation the Navajos came to celebrate with the Ednishodi (long-robed ones...
...combine was first organized 2½ years ago at the suggestion of the U.S. Government to conduct a survey of Japan. Named as president was Clifford S. Strike, 46, president of Manhattan's F. H. McGraw & Co., which built, among other World War II projects, the $36 million Bermuda air base. Last week in a green-carpeted office on Manhattan's East 42nd Street, O.C.I. President Strike and Board Chairman
...riddled with disease (an estimated 5,000,000 cases of malaria annually and at least 7,000 cases of leprosy). Its infant death rate is estimated at more than 50 per 1,000 live births. Its schools are few and poor. Of some 125 million acres of potentially arable land, only one-tenth is farmed and that with primitive tools...
...achieve her plan, Persia proposes to spend a total of $650 million, an estimated 35% to 40% of which will be spent abroad. The bulk of the development cash will come from Persian government royalties from the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Iranian last year paid Persia some $35 million in royalties, but a new pipeline to be built from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to Tripoli in Lebanon, under a deal between Anglo-Iranian, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, is expected to let Anglo-Iranian boost output and raise royalties to as much as $50 million next...