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...force assisted by some German and Italian aviation and supplies. Up to last week they had occupied 28 of the 50 provinces of Spain. Although everywhere outnumbered hundreds to one by the Spanish proletariat, they had not up to this week been ousted by popular uprising from any important area which they have occupied. Of the 68 branches of the Bank of Spain, 38 were under regular White administration, and the German Government, in extending diplomatic recognition, confirmed so far as the Reichsbank is concerned the regulation of Generalissimo Franco that a Spanish bank-note is worthless unless it bears...
...four Federated Malay States under British "protection," humid, sleepy Selangor is next to the smallest in area, out important because of its tin deposits. Originally the Malays were extremely virile. The Japanese people are descendants of Malay conquerors. Today the chief function of the impotent Malay Peninsula is to supply 40% of the world's tin. Enhanced is the Sultan of Selangor's glory by the fact that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High...
After the registrations are received each employe will be issued a numbered identification card. Not tags (they have no strings) nor discs (they are not round), these cards will bear a triple hyphenated number, the first digits designating an area, the next an industrial group, the third an individual. Lest workers feel they are being numbered like convicts, each number is called an "Account Number" and the published regulations say, "You may have your account number changed at any time by applying to the Social Security Board and showing good reasons for the change...
...budget providing ample funds for the Government to propagandize Bermuda in favor of birth control, supply the necessary apparatus cheap to poor Negroes; further, to launch a determined fight on venereal disease by setting up free clinics. Only 20 of the 360 Bermuda Islands are inhabited. On a total area of 12,360 acres of which only 1,400 are under cultivation, live whites and blacks in a density of 1,520 persons per square mile, ideal objects for the application of birth control...
...scattered throughout the city with no geographical relationship whatever. But the automobile industry has been moving out of Detroit into the surrounding countryside, partly because of the city's high taxes, partly because of a general tendency toward decentralization. Detroit in the automobile sense now covers an immense area including cities like Flint, Lansing, Toledo, Windsor...