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...Georgia and the lower South may just as well face facts-simple facts presented in the lower South by the President of the United States. Your Governor understands these facts. The purchasing power of the millions of Americans in this whole area is far too low. Most men and women who work for wages in this whole area get wages which are far too low. On the present scale of wages, and therefore on the present scale of buying power, the South cannot and will not succeed in establishing successful new industries." Not since Madam Secretary Perkins twitted Dixie...
...salmon spawned in the U. S. and protected by the Bureau of Fisheries were U. S. property, waited for an answer. Last week it came in satisfactory form. In what amounted to a complete capitulation, Japan promised to suspend her "survey," issue no licenses for salmon fishing in the area, "take measures" to halt any violators of the agreement...
Japanese have been striking not only down the Peking-Shanghai line but also down the Peking-Hankow railway, and last week the war was going great guns in the U-shaped area these roads make with "China's Hindenburg Line." This is not a closely coordinated system of defenses like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland...
Federal agents in the Metropolitan area reported that the situation was intensified by the disappearance of William Carfare '39, president of Lampy. They revealed that the Lampoon safe was also missing. Since Carfare was rumored to have been seen in Pinehurst, North Carolina, Colonel Apted called in the G-men, it having become clear to him that the fugitive must have crossed a state line. "It's all too horrible," Apted mused, as he absentmindedly ordered two Rindge Tech students to "break it up!" The colonel's eyes gleamed. "Enough is enough!" he whispered...
Tornadoes are more widespread than floods, that other natural scourge of the Mississippi River watershed, and kill quicker. The tornado is a fast-traveling column of whirling wind which not only devastates anything in its direct path but by its centrifugal force leaves a low pressure area in which air-filled buildings literally explode. Most serious that the valley has suffered in years, last week's tornadoes, according to Red Cross estimates, killed 20 people, injured 188, left 2,000 homeless, and were characteristically freakish...