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Show O At the beginning of this century, the world's entire production of nickel amounted to only about 20,000,000 pounds annually n 1957, the free world alone produced pro-duced approximately 490,000.000 pounds e On tiny Providence Island north of Madagascar the hearts of coconut co-conut palm trees provide a delicacy deli-cacy known as "the millionaire's salad." A palm heart Is obtained by cutting down a mature tree. To serve ten persons costs about $200 0 The card game "pitch," popular with service men during World War II, and made famous through the writings of Mark Twain, Bret Harte and O. Henry, ts also known as Seven-Up, Old Sledge, Shasta Sam, Cinch and High-Low-Jack. Coal Is the source of two-thirds of all electricty produced in the United States. 0 0 Each of us possesses a mechanism mech-anism so delicate and involved no scientist or engineer or Inventor could duplicate it. It ts the eye, a miniature Cinemascope-3-d-col-or television unit, linked to a thinking think-ing machine with a lifetime supply of power. e World production of potatoes centers In Europe and the USSR, although this vegetable originated In the Andes. |