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Already, with a population density of 550 per sq. mi., Britain is the West's most thickly settled big nation.- "If you in the U.S. had our population density," Transport Minister Ernest Marples recently remarked in Los Angeles, "you could accommodate the entire population of the world-white, yellow, black, the lot. And all the present population of both the U.S. and the United Kingdom could be accommodated in Texas...
...year in good shape; e.g., Allied Chemical raised its 1959 earnings 46% (to $2.51 a share) despite a quarterly drop of 4% in profits. But nothing could save Douglas Aircraft Co. from a hefty 1959 loss as a result of heavy charge-offs against its new DC-8 jet transport program. The firm reported a loss of $33.8 million, compared with a $16.8 million profit in 1958. However, it expects peak deliveries of DC-8s in 1960 to boost overall sales to more than $1 billion-and profits with...
...M.P.H. SHIP will be built by Grumman Aircraft under $1,500,000 contract from Maritime Administration, which calls it one of the most significant advances in marine transport in 50 years. Powered by gas turbine engine, the all-aluminum, 104-ft. ship will carry 100 passengers, ride on hydrofoils that lift entire hull out of water...
...body and chunks of fuselage washed in from the ocean; other bodies were scattered over 16 miles to the point where the forward section crashed in a plowed field near the hamlet of Bolivia, N.C., 15 miles inland. Pilot Dale Southard, 46, a World War II Military Air Transport Service veteran, evidently had some warning of trouble, for some passengers were wearing life jackets. But he made no emergency radio calls. All signs indicated that he was heading back toward Wilmington, fighting desperately to hold his plane on course as it lost altitude and tore itself apart. Some experts guessed...
Luis Bravo journeyed to Buenos Aires and called at the Israeli consulate, which cold-shouldered him so efficiently that he went back to Chimpay discouraged. But one day in 1954, a wonderful rumor reached the village: a ship with the Messiah himself aboard had landed at Buenos Aires to transport the children of Israel to the Promised Land. Almost all the people in Chimpay sold their possessions to the few who stayed behind and trekked to Buenos Aires, 1,300 miles away...