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Social News Joseph Harland of Washington D. C. is much improved followinj surgery and spent the weeken< with Mrs. Havana Jeffries. ANSWERS 1. He is capableof seeing about 9.000 stars, but because of mists and haze, the number is usually somewhat less than 4,000 2. Norman Thomas, the well known socialist leader — six tim es 3. About $1,500. 4 The whale shark, some of which are as long as 45 feet 5. Gulf of Mexico, with a 3,100 mile shoreline. 6. Bauxite. 7. St. Lawrence River 8. Excepting Antarctica, this is Greenland, with about 36.000 population in an area of 840,000 square miles. 9. Americans, who consume about half the world’s supply 10. The Rio Grande 1 1 Marrow 12. The Sahara, in North Africa, which covers about three mil lion square miles
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