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Next day the bombers came back and altogether southern Finland got three raids in a week. Helsinki's citizens, who do not scare easily, amused themselves during one alarm by potting one another with snowballs. During another they watched a Finnish anti-aircraft battery pot one of the visiting bombers. Cabled New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny: "We.saw a flash of fire in the sky, blotted out immediately by a mushrooming blob of black smoke, and then scraps of debris began falling. A moment later we heard a roar...
...exchange, traded milk, eggs, potatoes for pianos and fur coats. Dentists hoarded gold; china, rugs, pictures, electrical equipment, furniture were at a premium as Germans tried to put all their available cash in goods of intrinsic value. A nation's economic life disintegrated because its money went to pot...
Radio's coast-to-coast bank-night program, as most U. S. tuners now know well, is Tums' four-month-old Pot o' Gold, which every Tuesday night rings up some U. S. telephone subscriber to offer him $1,000, with no strings or Turns attached...
Movie theatres and chains now offer prizes equal to Pot o' Gold's to coax patrons away from the magic call and into theatres. Information Please, opposite Pot o' Gold, in self-defense instituted a giveaway on its own high intellectual plane-sets of Encyclopaedia Britannica. On CBS, Competitor Walter O'Keefe, with nothing to give listeners but wit, dwindled off the air middle of last month...
...mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...