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Outside the Iron Curtain, Italy has more state-run businesses than any other European country. When Italy became a nation 96 years ago, her government inherited a Genoese shipyard from the old kingdom of Sardinia, and that was the state's start in business. Under 21 years of Fascism, the government got more and more deeply mixed up in the economy, and has never since got out of it. Today the government mines all of Italy's coal and 80% of her iron ore; it produces more than three-quarters of the nation's pig iron...
...months as a history professor at Mississippi's 86-year-old Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College, Clennon King, 36, was a constant irritant to the state-run Negro campus. A Tuskegee graduate with an M.A. from Western Reserve, he was often rude to his students. He also aroused the wrath of President J. R. Otis for his habit of writing letters to the press on issues of the day. Last week the Jackson State Times began publishing a series of articles by Professor King that threatened to blow little (561 students) Alcorn right out of existence...
SAHARA DESERT RICHES will be exploited by France as result of new oil find under Algerian sands near Ouargla. On basis of three proven wells, estimates of pool run as high as 7 billion bbls. Under government administrator, state committees of French and Algerian representatives will set up development plan, centralize work of private and state-run companies now trying to tap desert's mineral wealth...
...STATE-RUN INDUSTRIES in France will lose 39% more this year than in 1955. Because government keeps lid on prices they can charge to hold down living costs, nationalized railroads are expected to lose $234 million, coal mines $40 million, gas utility almost $16 million, electricity companies $14 million, Paris subway and bus lines almost $34 million. Exception is state-owned Air France, which is expected to earn...
This posed no problems for the U.S. Information Service. It selected some text and color spreads from current U.S. picture magazines and prepared to pour 50,000 copies of Amerika into Russia's state-run distribution system. But the Reds had plenty of trouble with publishing...