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...high mountains of the kingdom of Laos, there is a wide, grassy plateau which the French call the Plaine des Jarres because of the ancient stone burial urns dotted about the landscape. According to French military thinking, the invading Viet Minh Communists "had to pass through" the Plaine des Jarres on their way to conquer Laos. There last week, in a two-mile perimeter around an airstrip, the French were hastily improvising a defense system of barbed wire and entrenchments. Soon Legionnaires and loyal Laotian troops were as securely trussed-up in their "hedgehog" as the ancient Laotians in their...
...Land. Twice as big as Louisiana, and watered by the crocodile-haunted Volta River, the Gold Coast includes: 1) the Crown Colony proper, a strip of steaming forest along the surf-beaten coast; 2) the Kingdom of Ashanti, astride the interior plateau; and 3) the Northern Territories. The North is a sun-baked wasteland, many of whose primitive people live in holes in the ground; their women go naked, with a tuft of leaves before and behind...
Portuguese Africa consists chiefly of two massive areas of steamy plain and plateau (Angola and Mozambique) lying athwart tropical Africa's only east-west railroad. Mozambique lives off shipping to & from its landlocked neighbors, the Rhodesias, and South Africa's Transvaal...
Tanganyika, a British mandate eight times as big as the state of Kentucky, was taken from Germany in World War I. Mostly high equatorial plateau; a hunter's paradise but infested with tsetse flies. Population: 16,000 whites, half of them Germans; 23,000 Indian traders; 7,000,000 Bantus, scattered in some 100 tribes. Capital: Dar es Salaam. Resources: cotton, sisal, peanuts...
...first years after World War II, businessmen expanded to catch up with existing demand; in 1952 they expanded to meet future demands, on which they put no limits. U.S. business had climbed to what it thought to be a peak, only to find that it had reached a broad plateau and that the peaks were still ahead. The forecast for further expansion was not based merely on arms-spending. It was predicated as well on a continued and continually surprising population increase...