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...last week, what the Japanese Army had envisaged as a cheap, comparatively easy three-month romp through the northern provinces had dragged out to a year of costly, still undeclared war, with the end nowhere in sight. Japan has overrun an area twice as large as France and Germany (see map, p. 15), has captured eight provincial capitals, and has extended her campaign through twelve provinces of North and Central China. All of China's main ports, except Swatow, Foochow and Canton, which have been heavily bombed, are in Japanese hands. Shanghai, China's commercial centre, was taken...
...although this means fighting along a stream well blocked with booms and flanked by mountains pitted with Chinese gun emplacements. An indication that the Japanese will use this route came last week as they requested all foreign vessels, including U. S. and British gunboats at Kiukiang, to evacuate the area...
...last Democratic President was prevailed on, during the World War, to cut the original Mt. Olympus monument area almost in half so as to stimulate private prospecting for manganese ore. Some ores were found, but the real wealth of the Olympics is their mantle of giant fir, spruce, cedar and hemlock, their abounding game (trout, bear, cougar as well as elk), their scenery. Also during the War, the Government built a spruce production railroad there to get out special woods for airplane construction. The lumbering now is mostly in private hands (Weyerhaeuser, Long-Bell, Northern Pacific) and the jagged boundaries...
Illustrative of the growth of espionage in France is the fact that in 1932 only 16 spies were caught, that in 1934 a total of 95, 84 of them foreigners, were caught. During 1937 the number jumped to 150 for the Strasbourg area in Alsace alone and this year an average of nearly four spies a week, mainly German and Italian, have been detected near France's famed Maginot Line...
...actuaries figure, the New York megalopolis will contain 17,535,000 people, will require 116,800 hospital beds. New establishments and replacements should cost $607,216,300. As in the rest of the U. S., the population is getting older on the average, and crazier. So the New York area must have more accommodations for its mentally and chronically ill. On the other hand, many people, including pregnant women, go to hospitals when they could be treated just as well at home. Needed, therefore, will be more visiting nurses making rounds of tenements, apartments, private homes, if New York City...