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...Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from Hankow. Foreign observers last week estimated that at least 60% of the machinery from the steel, iron, rice, flour and oil plants in the Hankow...
...Tropic of Capricorn runs through the Chaco, the Tropic of Cancer just north of Cuba. The area between the Tropics includes Central America, the jungles of the Amazon, the West Indies, the least habitable parts of Africa, the East Indies and the deserts of northern Australia...
...hold their mass festivities in the town itself (normal pop. 450,000). As a result, in the past five years a titanic Parteitag Geldnde, or party grounds, has been in the process of construction, in what used to be Nürnberg's Luitpold Park (see map). The area is larger than that of the old walled town...
...from Maine exchanging with an Arizonian if their local postmasters approved); in boasting about the number of boxes they visit (Mrs. Annie Massey, 53, of Bay Springs, Miss. on one stretch of her 50 mi., 165-box route, has to travel 17 miles and cross: eleven bridges in an area of one squre mile); in marveling at the streamlined never-stick R. F. D. box displayed at the convention by Farmer Adney Coleman of Evergreen, Ala., which looked as if it really wouldn't jam up and be a nuisance in bad weather...
...union warehouses (TIME. Aug. 29). Last week it continued its journeys, accompanied by pickets, chalked with signs RED HOT SCAB CAR, TWO MORE STOPS AND WE'LL ALL BE OUT, etc. By week's end more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area were closed, some 2,500 of the 8,000 Bridges Warehousemen were out of work and the hot car, having traveled over 220 miles, had become a major pawn in San Francisco's ever smoldering labor...