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...hall of fame-alongside those of Archibald T. Steele of the Chicago Daily News, Authors Anna Louise Strong. Agnes Smedley, and Captain Evans F. Carlson, retired U. S. Marine observer-as one who went through danger and discomfort to find the big story of Chinese operations deep in the interior behind Japanese front lines...
...French Foreign Office last week was reported to have quietly given in to persistent Japanese demands that the railway from French Indo-China into interior Yunnan Province be closed to war supplies for Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies. With only a trickle of traffic going over the long rail and motor route from British Burma, the Chinese are now almost wholly dependent on the Soviet Union for their foreign supplies. These are either flown in by Russian planes or trucked in over the Sian-AIma Ata highway, linking China with Soviet territory, or the Lanchow-Ulan Bator...
...lying astride the equator, is valuable to Belgium as a source of copper, rubber, palm oil. The river mouth was discovered about 1482 by a Portuguese, Dioga Cào, but for three centuries little colonization was done. In the middle 19th Century intrepid British explorers pushed into the interior and in 1873 famed Explorer David Livingstone died while charting the river's headwaters. Equally famed H. M. Stanley, sent to rescue Livingstone, remained to become the first white man to journey down the Congo...
...week: 1) PWA agreed to lend an additional $3,279,000 for a municipal distributing system in Chattanooga (Commonwealth & Southern territory); 2) for $1,600,000, TVA and 22 cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier's, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes predicted the doom of privately owned utilities if they continued their "blind and headstrong course"; 4) the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., accusing that big holding company of "conspiring to monopolize" the natural gas industry in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia...
Nash offers 22 models in its four series of sixes and eights at prices ranging from $840 to $1,235. Ruggedly streamlined, Nash features for 1939 its "Weather Eye," a dash control which tunes in interior air-conditioning like a radio; its sedan interior which makes up into two bunks for roadside snoozing...