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Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year...
...that squeeze has not been duplicated elsewhere. In principle the Bridgman pressure apparatus is simple, like Archimedes' theoretical lever with which the old Greek said he could move the world. It is a hydraulic press, in which is utilized the fact that a piston bearing on a small area of a confined liquid delivers its pressure against every other area of equal size in the tank. Thus if a force of 100 lb. is brought against a piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston...
Breathless, popeyed, footsore runners from the Northern Front brought Emperor Haile Selassie news that 4,700 Italians have been killed by Ethiopians in savage skirmishes bordering the area nominally conquered by Il Duce's forces. Runners from the Southern Front told of the capture from Italians of 1,000 precious rifles and 20 priceless machine guns, of Italian tanks stranded and abandoned, Italian native troops mutinying...
...citrus year ending last October, U. S. citizens consumed 163,029 carloads of oranges, lemons and grapefruit-39% more than the five-year average through 1929 and an all-time record. Two-thirds of the U. S. citrus crop is harvested in the California-Arizona area. Except for a smallish Texas production (largely grapefruit), Florida accounts for the rest.* And since three-fourths of the California-Arizona crop is marketed by California Fruit Growers Exchange, that famed co-operative is by far the largest factor in the U. S. citrus industry. Last week the 13,500 fruit-growing members were...