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Especially important to China are these cooperatives. Started with a scant $500,000 capital, they now include almost 3,000 small, mobile workshops back of the lines, support some 500,000 refugees, supply consumer goods (shoes, nails, bandages, coal, cigarets, books, cloth) worth around $6,000,000 a year. Their share of the United China Relief fund, about 10%, will help establish 30,000 new workshops that China needs...
...rationing order was put into effect to make sure that Britain's scant supply of clothing, footwear, cloth and knitting wool would be distributed as evenly as possible. Under the scheme everyone will get 66 clothes coupons a year, must surrender some with each purchase he makes. A man's suit will take 26 coupons, a woman's dress 11, shirts 5, pajamas 8, galoshes (adult) 4, bathing suit (adult) 4, silk stockings 2. Bombees will get extra coupons...
...most exciting race of the afternoon was that for the Goldthwait Cup, which brought to the starting line the undefeated lightweight Varsities of Yale and Princeton and the Crimson shell which had lost out to Tech by a scant two feet the week previous...
...Harvard Bridge Johnny Abbot's boat had a quarter-length on the Engineers, but as the two shells came into the finish stroke for stroke the gray-bladed sweeps hit the water last and thrust the M. I. T. boat across the line first, a winner by a scant two feet...
...boat didn't click as Haines had hoped, and he had practically decided to give the Fales-paced "seconds" the call Saturday, depending on the outcome of yesterday's time-trial. In the crucial test however, Abbot's boat found itself and nosed out the seconds by a scant half length, winning the right to race tomorrow...