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Exporting Profits. Though they have been trading on the east coast of Africa for centuries, most of East Africa's Asians have taken root in this alien land only since 1895, when the British brought in 32,000 Indian workmen to build the narrow-gauge railway that opened the interior to colonization. Asians quickly turned from railroad building to trade, and so completely dominated commerce that until 1919 the rupee was the official currency of East Africa...
...also apt to suffer from acquisitionitis-the compulsion to get something, no matter how inferior, from as many periods and schools as possible. Advises Rich: "Put the prospective acquisition next to the Goya or the Rembrandt, to see how it holds up. If it doesn't, call Railway Express at once...
...enlarged into Europe's biggest spinning and weaving plant, and an eight-story grey marble mansion. Both belong to the Marzotto family. So do the village's hospitals, orphanages, parks, cafes, hotels, shops and just about everything else, including the railroad station and the 20-mile electric railway that links Valdagno with the outside world...
...past decade, the Negro has made more gains than in all previous U.S. history: the armed forces have been desegregated; the nation's capital has banned segregation; virtually all airports, bus and railway stations through the South have been desegregated; and a long-awaited executive order prohibiting discrimination in federally aided housing has been signed. Today the statutes of 21 states include enforceable fair employment practice laws, and more Negroes hold elective offices in the U.S. than at any time since the Reconstruction days...
Presently, the MTA can gain nothing from moving its switching and storage facilities to Codman Sq. and will not be forced to move unless the Authority takes over the Old Colony railway line. Any such action is at least two years in the future...