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...victorious Japanese commander in chief at Shanghai, long-eared General Iwane Matsui, visited the scene of the bombing, and there under the dim glow of street lights promised the Settlement police commissioner, British Major F. W. Gerrard, to withdraw at once all Japanese forces from the 30 square block area, leave further investigation of the bomb outrage to the Shanghai Municipality...
...seat, rests one end on part of the toilet (see cut). Over the single window is a Venetian blind. Because everything except the toilet and seats either hangs on, or disappears into the walls, most of the 5 ft. 10 in. by 3 ft. 7 in. floor area is left clear by day. At night, sitting on the bed the occupant has11 in. in which to swing his feet, but a roomette's real advantage is that morning or night the passenger can dress, undress and wash with the bed shoved up out of the way. Big disadvantage appears...
...Willkie's arguments and suggestions in effort to convince the powerman that the utilities really had nothing to fear, arguing that Government projects now accounted for only 10% total U. S. power production nd that on a geographical basis the limit was 18% of the country in area, 13% in population. Mr. Willkie tried to convince the President that investors did have very real fears and consequently would not furnish money for utilities to spend, particularly "junior money" (common stock). Each concurred that the utilities could profitably spend a lot of money in the next year, perhaps as much...
That the President still thinks of businessmen as his opponents in a highly exciting political game was clear last week at the White House press conference following Mr. Willkie's visit. He said he had pressed Mr. Willkie for reasons why companies outside the area of direct TVA competition had difficulty in raising money, and that the only answer he could get was: "The general feeling." As every businessman knows, "the general feeling" is more important in selling any security or making any financial commitment than the details of a registration statement. And the general feeling of businessmen last...
...insisted that the surest way of "preserving one's country from the horrors of war, was simply observance of well-established rules of neutrality known to all the world." Such a policy would "limit the area and probably the duration" of wars, and would "promote sanity recovery, and reconstruction...