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...watchers were inaugurating the biggest rehearsal for air-raid defense ever undertaken in the U.S. They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything from scythes and squirrel rifles to radios and binoculars. But their chief defensive weapon was the telephone...
...suddenly swept over, wiped out town and townspeople in 15 minutes. At Galveston, where in 1900 a hurricane and tidal wave killed 6,000, sandbags were piled before doorways, windows boarded up. Long before the Weather Bureau released its dry warning that the storm was at hand, launches chugged inland over the bayous, dugouts paddled swiftly toward settlements, country storekeepers moved their stock to high shelves...
...about remaining in China permanently is as clear as Yellow River mud. Prince Konoye said in March 1938: "We will never give up an inch of the territories already occupied." Prince Konoye said in July 1938: "Japan does not want an inch of Chinese territory." But clear as the Inland Sea is the Japanese position on withdrawing now: it is out of the question. Last week, to lend credence to Japan's apparent good intentions, Tokyo put out a palpably false story that Free China in Chungking and Puppet China in Nanking were on the .point of making peace...
...blast furnaces, the pig-iron program includes ten new furnaces: one each at Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala., Cleveland and Youngstown, Ohio (for Republic Steel), at Johnstown, Pa. and Lackawanna, N.Y. (for Bethlehem), at Braddock, Pa. (for U.S.), at Pueblo, Colo, (for Colorado Fuel & Iron), two at Indiana Harbor (for Inland). At Provo, Utah (or perhaps at Pittsburg, Calif.) U.S. Steel's Columbia works is due to get three more blast furnaces, to be shipped second-hand from eastern mills where they were not in use, would have to be torn down for rebuilding anyway...
Brazil was the scene of a commercial air battle. Germany's Condor Airline already covers the Brazilian coast, throws a big loop into the up-country jungles. As Brazil called for bids for another inland airline, Condor prepared to bid for it against U.S.-owned Panair do Brasil, meanwhile ran its plane over the route, carrying a steady trickle of German "tourists" inland...