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...even if Japan did not have the third largest fleet in the world, an effective blockade of China would still be a far easier move than an effective blockade of Spain. In all that coast there are just six ports with effective rail connection with China's interior north-to-south: Tientsin. Tsingtao, Haichow, Shanghai, Hangchow, Canton. Shanghai is bottled up. Tientsin Japan already controls. Blockading the other ports is none too difficult, was made a thousand times easier last week by President Roosevelt's order forbidding the exporting of munitions on U. S.-owned ships...
...range and obviating many landings in Alaskan mud, on ice hummocks or through fog, all deadly Arctic dangers. For 17 days, parka clad and living on seal meat and 18-month old eggs, Jimmie Mattern scoured the seacoast, the area flanking the 48th meridian and Alaska's mountainous interior. Because his refueling plane crashed just before reaching its destination he had to make the hazardous take-offs and landings he dreaded. Of the lost Russians not a trace was found...
Unfounded rumors of silver shipments totaling $100,000,000 from Canton and other cities in the interior of China to Hong Kong broke the price of bar silver in London to a new 1937 low of 19¼d (43?) an oz., 1½? below the U. S. price. Result- the U. S. Treasury therefore became a heavy buyer until the price differential was erased. Arbitragers promptly took advantage of the same situation, and 3,175,000 ounces of their silver last week arrived in Manhattan. On a war scare virtually all principal foreign currencies developed weaknesses against the dollar...
Note also that we have two different types of marble used in the interior construction of this building, domestic as well as foreign...
Last week the discoverer of that petrified forest, Yale's merry old paleobotanist, George Reber Wieland, was engaged in a public quarrel with Secretary of the Interior Ickes, whose duty it is to tend to national monuments. Professor Wieland wants Secretary Ickes to spend $95,000 cleaning up the petrified forest and making it easy for paleobotanists to get to. He thinks he has a right to get that done because, besides discovering the forest, he took title to it as a homesteader and then gave it back to the Government for nothing...