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...thumbing was not always easy. Twelve years ago the Russians launched a determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
Despite Kahn, the southward migration of New England's textile industry continued. Monroe County, Miss, prepared to float a $2,600,000 bond issue to supply Rhode Island's Textron, Inc. with a plant-all part of Mississippi's well-organized program to "balance agriculture with industry." Since this program got under way in 1938, Mississippi has lured nearly 70 new plants (mostly textiles) to the state. Result: state employment has jumped by 15,000, payrolls by $35 million. Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama have similar programs...
...many battles were fought in the North, but a year of U.N. air bombardment and the exactions of the hard-pressed Communist armies have ravaged the land. The refugees who still stream southward from the "People's Republic" tell of North Korean farmers eating rice seedlings, grass and bark...
...Grace Line's J. Peter Grace Jr. and Nelson Rockefeller, and visit the hotel where he was born 45 years ago, when his father was minister to Washington. From his birthplace, he will fly to California to visit his old university campus at Berkeley, then head southward for a brief state visit in Mexico City on his way home...
...year, second only to Kimberley's diamond mines. Wild speculation broke out in land and feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with his birds. He scrabbled hard...