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Delegates from as far away as Cleveland and Chicago will attend the meetings, and will discuss, in a round-table fashion, the best methods of protecting all types of art from damage. Paintings on canvas, for example, can be torn to shreds by the impact of the force of a high-explosive bomb, and smoke, extreme heat or cold, fumes, and fire are very harmful to pictures, as well as other forms...
...Senior Spread could still be a financial success, but the informal House dancing might be eliminated. Very probably the students would like to see Class Day held immediately after final exams, or during them, on the day of the baseball game. As for confetti--torn up newspapers are a possible ersatz...
...been to try to stem China's inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency. And so a large measure of the responsibility in turning...
...backing of enterprises in China. Small manufactures, based on simple machinery which China can produce herself, would, by increasing the flow of goods, help ease the inflation. Big undertakings, such as the building of railroads with rails torn up from Japanese-occupied territory, could help the war effort...
However the bombings helped shipping to Africa, it was too late to help one big chunk of Rommel's Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...