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Britain's Aden Colony consists of 75 sq. mi. of bleak volcanic rock at the southwestern tip of the Arabian peninsula. Though hot as hell's hinges, Aden is a prosperous city of some 300,000; its port, one of the world's busiest, has virtually the only good harbor on the 3,400-mile sea haul from Suez to India. Aden is also headquarters for the 40,000 troops of Britain's Middle East Command who stand guard over the Persian Gulf. In the setting sun of empire, Britain has been shoved out of bases...
...handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. in setting up a regular circuit of campfire meetings in 1940 for churchless southwestern areas. He still travels the circuit himself each summer, telling Bible stories and frontier yarns...
...promise that he could ship cheaper than Eastern mills and on 24 hours' notice. Using low-grade local iron ore to save on transportation costs, Germany made good on his promise, and before long Lone Star was one of the top suppliers of pipe in the Southwestern oilfields. With more borrowed money. Germany then launched a $40 million expansion program and broadened his product line until it ranged from reinforcing rods to air raid shelters. Last year Lone Star earned $3,559,000 on sales of $71.2 million, ran at 68% capacity compared with an industry average...
Died. William Thomas Waggoner Jr., 57, speed-happy heir to a $300 million Southwestern cattle-and-oil empire, who spent more than $1,000,000 building his unlimited (2,000-plus h.p.) hydroplanes Maverick and Shanty, which, despite endless mishaps, blazed their way to top U.S. speedboat records; in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Democrat has drawn in Texas in many years. He was victorious in a city which has a Republican mayor and a Republican city council. He won by a substantial eleven thousand votes, emerging not only as the winner of a Congressional race but also as a great figure in Southwestern politics upon whose shoulders rests much of the responsibility for the liberal movement in Texas...