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Market Needed. Kitimat's position will enable Alcan to bring in bauxite and other raw materials by sea, and to ship out the finished aluminum. The nearby network of lakes and rivers will be dammed to form a 500-sq.-mi inland sea. Its waters will be drained off into two ten-mile tunnels through the mountains to produce an estimated 1,600,000 horsepower of cheap electricity for the Kitimat factory...
...where the Red Sea runs into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians out again and put Haile Selassie back on the throne...
Hate & Terror. That was the first sign of trouble stirring in the U.S.'s tiny (3.435 sq. mi), poverty-stricken Caribbean territory-trouble which quickly spread to the steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
...long time. Sometimes their sounding balloons get into it and are quickly whisked out of the range of their instruments. Apparently it is caused by an encounter between two air masses of different temperatures. Since the jet stream is narrow for a wind stream (seldom more than 100 mi. wide) and only some 5,000 ft. deep, it is hard to pinpoint exactly on a weather map. Airplanes flying high toward the west in the middle latitudes are apt to head into an uncharted jet stream and find their ground speed cut in half. Flying east, they may hitch...
...Hawaii, came a bit of rather ominous news. A Viking rocket (body by Glenn L. Martin Co. propulsion by Reaction Motors, Inc.) had been launched from its deck to an altitude of 106.4 miles. This is only a few miles short of the record for single-stage rockets (114 mi.) made by the larger German...