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...many of whom are civilians and thus, theoretically, not under army orders) enlarged powers to carry on their attacks behind the Japanese lines. That this order was hardly necessary was apparent from an admission by the official spokesman at Japanese military headquarters in Shanghai. He estimated that in the area bounded by Hangkow, Shanghai and Nanking 200,000 guerrillas were busily at work...
...large distributors," Trust Buster Arnold last July launched a grand-jury investigation in Chicago. Last week two criminal indictments under the Sherman Act resulted. One charged 14 corporations and 43 individuals with conspiracy to fix prices and control the supply of liquid milk in the Chicago area. The other charged 20 corporations and 20 individuals with a nationwide conspiracy to restrain the sale and use of counter-freezers with which retailers, hospitals, schools, etc., could make their own ice cream...
...England, farmers in Old England. Because concessions to English producers of finer cotton goods and woolens would probably hurt New England's none-too-flourishing textile industry, Governor George D. Aiken of Vermont cracked: "It looks like a plan to turn New England into a solely recreation area." On the other hand, British farmers complained because Britain, already the principal outlet for U. S. farm goods, abolished duties on U. S. wheat, corn (except flat white), lard, certain canned fruits and fruit juices, and reduced by as much as one-third the duties on rice, apples, pears, other canned...
Whittlesey doubted whether there were great mineral deposits outside of the rich area in Northern Rhodesia...
...area is only a little distance inland from Junean, the capital of the great northwestern territory, yet until the coming of aviation an a means of geographic exploration it moved only as the grave yard for many a lost prospector in the old gold rush days...