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...east coast of Porto Rico, were bought by the United States from Denmark in 1917 for $25,000,000. There are three chief islands in the group, St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John, and about 50 smaller islands, most of them unnamed and uninhabited. Their combined area is only 132 square miles and their population about...
French.. Seven more coke yards were occupied by French troops, bringing the total up to 18. The French hope in a short time to exact about 200,000 tons of coke monthly from the Ruhr area. This would be about half what they were receiving before the occupation...
...first successful contour map of a portion of the ocean bottom has been completed by the hydrographic office of the U. S. Navy Department, and covers an area of 34,000 square miles on the west coast of North America from San Francisco to a point in Mexico. It will aid the study of earthquakes on the west coast...
...playing schedule for the intercollegiate polo tournament at Fort Hamilton from May 3 to May 16 was given out yesterday by Major-General R. L. Bullard following a conference of the polo committee of the Second Corps Area of the United States Army...
...have been welcomed in the United States and shown many admirable schools which were not perhaps fair samples of the whole system. These visits took place before the war, in days when an optimistic census had declared that there were only some 8% of illiterates in the whole vast area. English commissions were satisfied that this country had a very dangerous competitor in scholarship, in science, in general liberal education across the Atlantic." Then came the draft report that 25% of the drafted men were illiterate. And the British breathed more freely...