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...airport just in time to watch his plane taking off (they had given him the wrong departure time). In Calcutta, nobody had even heard of his reservation for Manila. There, he found that his China visa had not arrived and, to make things more difficult, a brand new inoculation for plague had been ordered. That meant a seven-day wait. Meanwhile, the ATCman in New Delhi had found the original passage money he claimed Sherrod had not given him . . . etc. Eventually, Sherrod got to China...
...chill into Filipinos warmed with the first taste of self-rule. For the Bell Bill has given Manila just eight years grace from American tariff restrictions and, to the sugar growers of Luzon, this means that in eight years the sugar will rot on the waterfronts and even the brand new Constitution won't buy the rice or balance the books...
...contemplate a settlement in which everyone was dissatisfied, yet satisfied that his dissatisfaction was balanced by that of the others, may have been a brand new idea to the Russians. At first, the smallest and vaguest deals were blown up into diplomatic triumphs. The N. Y. Herald Tribune joyously reported "the first break in the log-jam." What was it? Merely that "a private meeting appointed a committee to study a plan to postpone the [Italian] colonial question for a year...
Three days later the Government, through Shipping Controller Captain E. S. Brand of the Royal Canadian Navy, began to operate 100-odd ships belonging to 29 companies. The Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Navigation Co., which signed with the Seamen's union, will still sail its own ships. The Government was operating only freighters, leaving the passenger lines, which normally do a big business with U.S. tourists, at the docks. While Captain Brand runs his ships a Government-appointed Commissioner will mediate the dispute itself...
...Malcolm Campbell, veteran auto-&-boat speedster, had a new ambition at 61. He proposed to raise the water speed record (141.74 m.p.h.) which he set with the Bluebird II in 1939. On an English lake next fall he will use the Bluebird's old hull with a brand-new jet engine...