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...carry the biggest load that could squeeze through the ditch. Her twin screws churn up mud within inches of the bottom, tend to make the big ship yaw from side to side. Besides, she was heading south full of highly volatile free gases left (because of an evaporator breakdown) from her last load of crude. A single bump, a single spark, could explode the gas in an instant mass of flame. Skipper Aniello Coppola stuck close to the bridge, watching every move...
...language University of Puerto Rico. But the atom's promise lies some years ahead. As the supercommittee deliberated, the U.S. Export-Import Bank met one of Latin America's most urgent needs by lending $100 million to Argentina, where the rail and highway system is near the breakdown point for lack of locomotives and trucks...
...reached a record 100,162,529 in 1955-a gain of 2,679,918 over the previous year-according to the Yearbook of American Churches. Thus 60.9% of U.S. citizens are now affiliated with religious bodies as compared with 57% in 1950, 36% in 1900. Denominational breakdown: 58,448,567 Protestants, 33,396,647 Roman Catholics, 5,500,000 Jews, 2.386,945 Eastern Orthodox, 367,370 Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics, and 63,000 Buddhists...
...payment, the U.S. agreed to accept not dollars but Indian rupees. Further, the U.S. agreed to spend all of the rupees it will receive in ways calculated to benefit the Indian economy. The breakdown: 65% to go to India as a new U.S. loan, the details of which are still under negotiation; 15% to be a direct U.S. grant to help India's economic development; 20% to go toward U.S. Government costs in India, e.g., the construction of a handsome new U.S. embassy in New Delhi (see ART). The U.S. attached an enlightened self-interest condition to the deal...
...Marathas, now rushed to champion the Gujarati cause. Local Socialists jumped on the bandwagon. And huffing and puffing alongside these leftist troublemakers were Gujarati businessmen and mill owners who foresaw difficulties in handling Maratha labor in a state dominated by Maratha voters. Between them, these strange allies produced a breakdown of law and order in Ahmedabad...