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...cement. From Calais through Lille to Valenciennes runs France's richest coal belt. Lille makes textiles and chemicals. Mezieres and Valenciennes are important steel towns. France's beet-sugar industry was in the north, and the entire area, with 85 inhabitants per square kilometer (2/5 sq. mi.) was a rich farm area for corn, barley, cattle, horses. The Germans would go methodically about rehabilitating all these resources, "to make the war pay for itself...
High in the Pyrenees Mountains, a cluster of craggy valleys comprises the semi-independent State of Andorra. A relic of the Middle Ages, the little (191 sq. mi.) country has been under the joint suzerainty of the French Government and the Spanish Bishop of Urgel since 1278, pays them a yearly tribute of about $86 in goats, sheep, cucumbers, other produce. Its 5,500 inhabitants scratch a hard living from the barren, upended land...
When Germany took Denmark, Adolf Hitler acquired (and emphatically disavowed) technical title to Denmark's Greenland-a vast (827,275 sq. mi.), arctic bloc only about 1,250 miles from northernmost Maine, well within the Monroe Doctrine's continental sphere. Mr. Roosevelt's advisers did not think the Nazis, with their already overtaxed fleet, could break past the British and use Greenland for a base during World...
Cause of the trouble: sunspots. According to astronomers' most plausible theory, sunspots shoot out streams of protons and electrons, electrified subatomic particles. The group of spots on the sun last week was 400,000,000 sq. mi. in area. This was not the biggest spot group of recent years; in fact, the eleven-year sunspot cycle is now in a declining phase. But this time the earth was right in the line of fire...
Adding 39,960 sq. mi. to Michigan was only an incident in Mr. Osborn's career. He has intermittently owned, edited and sold three small-town newspapers. A prospector and geologist of renown, he discovered the rich Moose Mountain iron range in Canada, the Kiruna and Luossavara deposits in Lapland, others in Africa, the Orient, Latin America. From sales of iron ore and timber lands, he has given nearly all of his millions away (to relatives, friends, deserving strangers, schools, churches, etc.). Says he: "It just happened that I was a moneymaker. . . . Why shouldn't I give...