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...Breathitt's total assessed valuation dropped from $7,205,920 in 1931-32 to $5,052,607 in 1938-39. County revenue this year is down to $48,790 (of which the Louisville & Nashville Railway will pay a third). There are 200 telephones in the county; County Judge Pearl Campbell has no telephone in his office...
...Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir Mayakovsky, also under British escort. She had 4,000 tons of U. S. copper and a lot of molybdenite aboard, cleared from Manzanillo on Mexico's west coast and San Pedro, Calif...
...mind is one with which Europe became familiar in Spain, in Poland, in Finland. It is war waged beyond the lines, against industry and transport, and its victims are civilians huddled in city cellars, women and children hiding in woods, travelers sprawled in ditches along roads and railway tracks. The one man in Europe who knows best how to wage such a war is Göring, for it was he who first created, with incredible speed and efficiency, a machine with which to fight...
...Swedish Government protested that it had been double-crossed. The terms it had forwarded as intermediary had been changed, dreadfully. Sly Viacheslav Molotov had said nothing about that Kandalaksha-Kemijärvi railway, which would be not only a steel chastity-belt clamped across Finland's waist but also a weapon to jimmy Sweden's door...
Careers as well as martyrs were made that Easter Week, and among those who carved a future for himself was a young, gawky, until then unknown professor of mathematics. Given a battalion command, he led out 50 partly armed men to hold two miles of strategic railway line and canal in Dublin. First he seized Boland's flour mills and bakery as his headquarters. Then, as the British troops came nearer, he called his men together and addressed them: "You have but one life to live, and but one death to die. See that you do both like...