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> An unrevealed number of Poles, veterans of September's stampede, left France for Finland. With them were some Polish-American mechanics who had volunteered too late to help Blitzkrieged Poland.
> Altogether, about 8,000 volunteers have already joined up with the Finns, according to Sir Walter Citrine. Of these, about 5,500 are Swedes, 1,000 Norwegians, 600 Danes, and the rest Frenchmen, Dutch men, Belgians, Poles, Americans, a few Estonians who crossed the Gulf of Finland in fishing boats...
City of unorthodox booms is Shanghai, a paradise of moneychangers and middlemen. Throughout Depression I Shanghai built itself the tallest buildings outside the Americas, tripled land values on its river-washed Bund (the International Settlement's downtown) in seven years. Last year, its suburbs full of Japanese soldiers, Shanghai...
Typical of these stubborn independents is the Moore Telephone System of Caro, Mich. (pop. 2,554). Its 1,500 subscribers, scattered through three farming counties of the sparse Thumb District, pay $2.50 a month for a twelve-party country line, $3.75 monthly for unlimited service in town. For a $5...
In Paris last week, in a reception room of the Polish Embassy, 17 prominent Poles met as a newly formed National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile. Council members sat in two rows facing each other, just as in the 16th-Century Polish Senate. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz appeared in...