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Show Parts of the interior of Alaska have temperatures ranges of 170 degrees Fahrenheit from 1C0 degrees de-grees In summer to minus 70 in winter. The fabulous 1890's salesman of railroad equipment, Diamond Jim Brady, once sported a pair of diamond cuff links fashioned in the shape of coal cars. The nation's first regularly scheduled air passenger service originated in Michigan in 1928 when Stout Air Services began round trip nights daily between Detroit and Grand Rapids. The world's forests cover about 10 billion acres, an area approximately approxi-mately equal to that of the West- ern Hemisphere. In the 1952 presidential election in the United States, 82.6 per cent of those of voting age cast a vote. The Saar, a Wl-square-mfle region between France and Germany, Ger-many, is one of the most densely populated parts of Europe. Heavily Heav-ily industrialized, it imports about 90 per cent of its food. |