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...worst trap of all is the crowded Kikuyu reserve, north of Nairobi. Scores of thousands of Kukes live there; and in the fertile areas, population density reaches 600 per sq. mi. Every scrap of arable land is terraced to the hilltops, yet only one Kuke family in ten has enough land to feed itself. The white holdings vary from a few acres (for poultry) to several square miles (for cattle ranching...
...established calculations, gives the miners more than they deserve, it sets a dangerous inflationary precedent. Should the coal miners receive more than they are entitled to, the way is clear for excessive demands by other workers. The UMW's strike can only succeed if it forces the Board to scrap the principle of stabilization on a rational basis...
...that scrap he had with Lattimore...
Inside the big, greenish concrete plant, the visitors saw a sight unique in Canadian papermaking. The wood supply clanking up the jackladder to be milled into paper was not the customary heavy, costly pine, fir and spruce; it was scraps of branches and tree tops and scrubby hemlock, waste wood that loggers call "slash" or "hog." Pounded by the mill's crushing stones, the scrap was being processed into newsprint as marketable as any produced from the most expensive pulpwood...
...weekends-to keep the advantage they have." De Havilland's reply: it cannot boost commercial production and meet its rearmament quotas. Then, said Rickenbacker, it ought to license a U.S. maker who can mass-produce the Comet III. Echoed London's Daily Mail: "Britain . . . will have to scrap the outworn ideas and practices which have been hampering her industries since the end of the war. If we go dawdling along as if it didn't matter much anyway, we shall deservedly lose a chance that will not be presented again...