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...with murderous freedom. In Shansi Province, "occupied" by Japanese for four months, 28 divisions of the Chinese Communist 8th Route Army move about organizing the peasants into a Communistic province within a province. At Peking, Chinese soldiers last week attacked the power house outside the city walls. In Shanghai, frequent firing is still heard as Chinese bands raid the outskirts. In its year in the field, the self-styled invincible Japanese Army met its first major defeat in modern military history as hordes of ill-equipped Chinese soldiers forced the invaders out of the now famed little town of Taierhchwang...
...their time. About 93,000 convicts have been sent to French Guiana since the penal colony was established in 1852. Some commentators have pictured the colony as a happy, carefree settlement. The French Guiana climate is always humid, with the temperature ranging from 68 to 90 degrees, with frequent trade winds from both southeast and northeast. Undeniable fact, however, is the large number of deaths, which each year has generally equaled the number of importations, as well as the large number of men of broken health and spirits who escape...
...about eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...
...reporting of the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the New York Times. After 16 years with the Times and four years with the New York Herald Tribune, he began a lucrative career as a freelance writer, achieved wide renown as a frequent author of the New Yorker's Profiles...
...less resistant to dust, fumes and gases [than men], more susceptible to poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working three months prior to and after childbirth; prohibiting night work; clean lunch rooms; quiet rest rooms; an educational program emphasizing female health; adequate nursing and medical care, and short...