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...Washington this week Chinese Ambassador Wei Tao-ming inked his paint brush and with delicate strokes inscribed his signature on a new U.S. treaty abolishing U.S. extraterritoriality rights and other special privileges in China. His co-signer was Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who said: "All of us have looked forward to this...
...more than usual suspicion. In recent weeks there had been an epidemic of fires in the Amazon rubber regions, enough to cause Governor Alvaro Maia of Amazonas State to make a trip to the Purús Valley district to investigate. The first fires were caused by settlers burning brush and seemed purely accidental; Brazilians and Japanese together put them out. But from then on the conflagrations grew in number and seriousness. Recently fires broke out in the highland regions of the western rivers, where some of Brazil's best rubber is grown and where Jap settlers have infiltrated...
Returning to the air in an effort to help students brush up on their Continental Code before entering the Army, the Crimson Network Code Class will resume its half-hour broadcasts at 10 o'clock tonight...
...lost his tail last week. Rommel let Montgomery overtake him and, before he knew it, Montgomery had bitten off his brush...
Among the tools that help Chapin make TIME'S maps so different are (1) the air brush-a sort of highpower atomizer with which he sprays paint over his maps in an infinite number of shadings that give mountains and valleys and plateaus and river beds their three-dimensional height and depth ... (2) two large floating globes -one political, one physical-which are suspended from the ceiling by pulleys and counterweights in such a way that they can be turned, lowered and photographed from any angle. Maps in the new global perspective so important in air and naval strategy...