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...surprised to see in your issue of May 29 reference to the Tennessee River watershed area as 640,000 square miles. An area of 640,000 square miles would cover all of the states bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and those West to the Ohio River and the Mississippi River south of the Ohio, making a total of 21 states. The watershed area of the Tennessee River is 40,600 square miles...
TIME erred in applying the word "watershed" to the industrial area, including 15 states bounded by Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and North Carolina, which the Tennessee Valley Authority is designed to serve and which was officially measured by President Roosevelt...
Despondent Chinese patriots cheered up a little when they heard the terms of the truce (TIME, June 5). Though it kept their armies out of an area south of the Great Wall as big as Ohio, and kept Japanese patrols inside to watch for "provocations," it saved face for Chiang Kai-shek by two omissions. It said nothing about Chinese recognition of the puppet state, Manchukuo, nothing about Japanese control of the railway from Peiping to Tangku. Besides saving Chiang Kai-shek's face, the omissions showed that Japan prefers to deal with him rather than with the scrabbling...
...most unusual items in the Tower collection is the "Hudson's Bay Proclamation", issued in 1688 by King James the Second, restricting trade in the Hudson Bay area to members of the Hudson's Bay Company. Only three other copies are known to exist. These are at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library in Oxford, and the Public Record Office in London, and the Harvard copy is the only known copy in America. The proclamation is in the form of a large folio broadside, printed in black letter...
...partners stationed in Manhattan (five manage Drexel & Co. in Philadelphia) work together behind a long row of rolltop mahogany desks on the first floor of No. 23 Wall St., shut off by a glass partition from the banking floor and an area where clerks toil incessantly with calculating machines. By elevator they can go to the floor above where a long corridor decorated with large photographs of partners gives access to private offices where they can go to dictate to secretaries. (The Elder Morgan would tolerate no female stenographers but that day is long past.) Every morning the partners, including...