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Other factors responsible for population growth include development of the great southeastern New Mexico oil fields, the potash mines, and other mineral development. Permanent residents have come to New Mexico as health seekers, to retire, to establish new businesses in fast-growing communities...
Concretely, Pan-Americanism today is based upon a strong desire of all the twenty-one nations to establish world peace and preserve their own territorial integrity. Today they all believe that they can best achieve these ends by cooperation and by putting up a united front against the Axis powers. It is only natural and sensible that the United States should take the lead in strengthening this attitude by means of propaganda and cash. But, it is not impossible that the Axis may persuade some of these South American countries that it is in their interest to give up these...
Died. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, 83, 1927 Nobel Prizewinner who in 1917 inoculated a paretic with the blood of a malaria-poisoned soldier, risking medical censure to establish the fever cure for syphilitic paralysis; after a long illness; in Vienna...
Last week the details were announced. The Export-Import Bank would lend Brazil $20,000,000, which with $25,000,000 to be provided by the Brazilian Government and private investors would be used to establish Brazil as an important steel producer, with smelting furnaces at the ore fields and a steel mill in the State of Rio de Janeiro. U. S. equipment and technical skill would be used, and the loan would gradually be retired when the plant began to produce...
...describes defenseless villages bombed out of existence, King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav machine-gunned from the air, incendiary bombs dropped on the red cross on a hospital roof. Much of the book is the story of the Norwegian Government's retreat to the north, its efforts to establish a front there. Except for the case of Quisling, "a very well-read man with a weakness for German philosophy," Hambro specifically denies that treason played an important part in Norway's fall. Such charges, says he, are real fifth calumny. He says all the Norwegians were brave...