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...January 10 the 38 delegates to the P.C.C., an advisory body representing every shade of the nation's political color chart, had begun their task with cautious hope. Two notable events-a truce in the civil war, a bill of rights proclaimed by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek-augured well for their discussions. They debated with dignity and restraint, then sent their main problems to subcommittees for final recommendation. U.S. newsmen reported that the democratic process was genuinely in operation...
...pound bomb, tossed into the water by the survivor, explodes under hydrostatic pressure 3,000 to 4,000 feet under sea. Sound waves, carried by the water, are picked up by three or more shore stations. By careful comparison of the arrival times of the signals, the stations can chart the position of the explosion, through triangulation...
...China-Burma-India area was the most confused of all Allied war commands. A U.S. colonel once despairingly explained that the multinational, multiservice commands could not be illustrated on an ordinary service chart, but needed "a three-dimensional organization chart with a wire framework and five shades of colored ribbon, which ought to indicate at least the simpler relationships...
...Army alone made 480,000,000 maps during the war; the Navy and the Aeronautical Chart Service lost count. Inedible, but no less valuable, were huge rubber relief maps of enemy territory which could be rolled up like a rug. For castaways on life rafts: charts on rubberized cloth. For flyers over "the Hump": a cloth map with a request for aid printed on it in Chinese, Burmese, Lisu, Kachin, Hindustani, Bengali-and English...
...Fever Chart...