"The size of many countries, the 7th largest economy in the world"
7th or 4th? What was bigger? US, Germany, France. I think back then, California was still bigger than China. The UK is the only one I'm not sure of. It may have been bigger than California, but not by much.
72 posted on 03/17/2010 11:56:20 AM PDT by OldDeckHand