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Rice for the Rich. It is plowing season now. Because the Japanese Army slaughtered their water buffaloes, men must pull the plows. Chi Ho's hungry farmers struggle home to their riceless suppers and one morning cannot return to the fields. Production is lost; famine is prolonged...
...easily won the hit-&-run attacks on price control in the past, was now running into something like a pitched battle. Moreover, in price control, as in most things, Canada was influenced by what went on south of the border. Price rises in the U.S. had exerted an upward pull on Canadian prices. Now Canadians uneasily eyed the proposed emasculation of OPA. If that happened, they would have an even harder job keeping the lid on inflation in Canada...
Revolving Doors. Elizabeth Arden is a dreamed-up name. She was born-in the little Ontario village of Woodbridge-with the far more implausible name of Florence Nightingale Graham.* Her father was a huckster whose eccentricity was to use only broken-down thoroughbreds to pull his wagon. Flo tried out as a dentist's assistant and a student nurse in Toronto before traveling to New York in 1906. It was a time when a woman's beauty equipment consisted chiefly of glycerin and rose water; for a woman to "paint" was almost as outrageous...
...Pinch. The main goal was to pull off farms and out of elevators about one-third of the nation's storage of 375,000,000 bushels of wheat and to get it on the way to famine-threatened areas in the next three months. Would these measures at last bring out the wheat and other grains? The next two weeks might supply the answer. Grain men generally believed that farmers would release supplies slowly, but the 30? incentive would bring out an increasing supply...
Chungking spokesmen conceded that the great city of Harbin would fall to the Chinese Communists when the Russians pull out this week. For the moment, at least, the Nationalists were confined to the western and northern coastal area of the Liaotung Gulf, save only for the blunted column reaching from Mukden along the Dairen-Harbin railroad toward Changchun. The Communists-with 300,000 troops already in Manchuria-were siphoning in more, by land from the northwest, by sea from Shantung Peninsula to the Liaoning province port of Antung. The Nationalists had two more armies en route, five already...