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Market for Progress. Turkish coal mines dig only one-tenth as efficiently as American mines. Turkish farmers still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged...
...disease (an estimated 5,000,000 cases of malaria annually and at least 7,000 cases of leprosy). Its infant death rate is estimated at more than 50 per 1,000 live births. Its schools are few and poor. Of some 125 million acres of potentially arable land, only one-tenth is farmed and that with primitive tools...
...been whooshed out from airplanes on almost every kind of territory where noxious insects breed. When properly done, say Authors Hoffmann & Linduska, the results have usually been good. As little as one-tenth of a pound of DDT per acre is effective against some mosquitoes. Many serious forest pests, such as gypsy moths, are controlled by somewhat larger doses. Other insects are killed at the same time, but in most cases the insect population of the forest returns to normal a few weeks after the spraying...
...proletariat' if the Commission's proposed 1960 enrollment of 4,600,000 materializes. The evidence shows that "a college graduate is not generally content with employment in any but the favored occupations, which could not absorb even one-quarter of the Commission's fifteen million junior college graduates of 1968 and one-tenth of the thirty to forty-five millions of four-year-college graduates...
Worst off were the civilian refugees "living in tents and huts, with 50 to a room in schoolhouses or basements of public buildings. These half-starved, half-frozen fugitives form one-tenth of the population...