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...highly significant Chinese general today is moonfaced, bespectacled Yang Hu-cheng. As battle lines were drawn near Peiping last week and sporadic warfare crackled, General Yang was very far away, just landing in San Francisco with his tight-skinned little Chinese wife and their bright, button-eyed boy. Gesturing expansively with a pale Corona, General Yang welcomed alert California reporters. They wanted a good look at this celebrated Chinese commander who, when he found that another Chinese commander had kidnapped Chinese Dictator-&-Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, acted without a moment's hesitation and hijacked the kidnapping (TIME...
...PROFITS OF WAR-Richard Lewin-sohn-Button ($3). A Frenchman's lucid survey of war profiteering since Caesar's day. Henceforth, he concludes, taking the profits out of war means eliminating indirect business profits: munitions-makers are already subdued to where they do not want war, only a precarious peace...
...without causing passengers' knees to buckle as gravity's pull abruptly increases their weight.* To slow down and stop high speed elevators Otis perfected its "signal control" system, by which contacts made at every floor with the braking mechanism become effective only when a button has been pushed for a certain floor. Of this type are the Otis elevators (capable of 1,200 ft. per min.) in the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings...
JAPANESE LADY IN EUROPE - Haruko Ichikawa-Button...
...President pressed a button, flashing a green light that opened San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge...