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Until 1938 the main dependence of Free China for goods that gave her life -for trucks, tires, spare parts, lubricants, fuels, the things of mobility-was on the Hong Kong-Canton route of imports. Later, until 1940, it was on the roads and railway through Indo-China. Imports through Indo-China averaged 40,000 tons a month, and the Burma Road was an insignificant supplement-perhaps 3,000 tons a month. After the fall of France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons...
Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public...
Back from a five-and-a-half-week tour of seven South American neighbor nations was Henry Agard Wallace, who had traveled by many conveyances, but most notably by handcar. After a railway-car breakdown in Ecuador the Vice President had transferred to the railgoing seesaw, shed his coat, hoisted his sleeves, doggedly pumped and sweated for three miles...
...World War I threatened, he drifted out of the fold, smashed a French railway strike by conscripting workers and putting them under army orders, was read out of the party in 1914. Clemenceau's successor as Premier in 1920, he was elected President nine months later...
Examinees were asked to name the principal body of water on which are located Cleveland and St. Louis; two specific powers granted Congress by the Constitution; four freedoms in the Bill of Rights; the first U.S. census which could report railway mileage. Also: to identify the Nullification Act and the price of public land before passage of the Homestead...