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Under this clause, Japan had last week virtually completed the occupation of Indo-China-without a single test of the Mandel defenses. "Traffic Examiners" swarmed into the country in mufti, in Army khaki and Navy blue, piloting airplanes and driving little brown automobiles. They proceeded to chart airports, survey highways, estimate the troop traffic which the Haiphong-Kunming railway might carry if Indo-China should by any chance allow troops to cross her territory. Merchants arrived lugging the Oriental equivalents of carpetbags. Three destroyers lay off the port of Haiphong. A large fleet, including no less than 18 troop transports...
...four and a half year old Commission, created by the National Education Association to chart national policies, is a kind of spiritual adviser to the schools. It includes such bigwig pedagogues as Philadelphia's Superintendent Alexander J. Stoddard, Cornell's President Edmund E. Day, U. S. Commissioner John W. Studebaker. To big-city school superintendents and crossroads schoolhouses, the Commission last week sent a fervent orange-covered booklet-Education and the Defense of American Democracy...
...mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already made some experimental hops to Europe. Now it could stop the make-believe...
...readers to whom, as geography or politics, the Pacific is still a great waste of water filled with hidden reefs, treacherous winds and currents, Author Van Loon's book is no chart. His concern is with the explorers of this vast, lonely, misnamed ocean - from prehistoric Polynesian vikings and the Bounty's Captain Bligh, of open-boat fame, to Charles Darwin, who spent four highly uncomfortable years among its atolls, pondering the theory of the survival of the fittest, between bouts of seasickness aboard H. M. S. Beagle...
When William Henry Jackson was mustered out of the Army of the Potomac after the battle of Gettysburg, he drifted west, finally settled in Omaha. There he started a flourishing business in tintypes and stereopticon views. When the U. S. Geological Survey decided to chart the badlands of Wyoming, Photographer Jackson was asked to go along to take pictures. The pictures he took, of Wyoming's geysers and waterfalls, were directly responsible for Congress' decision to put the small rectangle of Yellowstone National Park...