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...American renewed its concession from Denmark to make tests in Greenland for a possible transatlantic route via Iceland. Simultaneously, Danish Airways Co. and Norwegian Airways Co. disclosed they were separately preparing to assist Pan American in trial flights from Iceland to Europe this summer...
...Communism on their wings. They laid big eggs of Death among the soldiers of Empire, swooped off, wheeled again and strafed the ground forces with machine guns. Fighting continued all week, with the Buddhist temple still the main objective. Dispatches reached the outer world by two fantastically difficult routes, via Urga and Moscow and via Hsinking and Tokyo. At latest reports the Soviet-Mongol forces outnumbered the Japanese-Manchus at least two-to-one and Japanese war planes were about to rush belatedly to the rescue clear across the mountains from Tsitsihar, the war base established by Japanese after they...
...Vatican City this week on the feast day of St. Agnes, two chaste white lambs will be brought to the Holy Father from the Church of St. Agnes in the Via Nomentana in Rome. Given his blessing, the gentle animals will be coddled until Easter when their wool is shorn, woven into the pallia which the Pope gives to patriarchs, primates and archbishops as a symbol of their office...
...American and Imperial Airways will be joint operators, each carrying mail one way, passengers both ways. The route will be New York, Montreal, Harbor Grace, Ireland, London, with an alternate passage via Bermuda, the Azores, Spain. The so-called "Lindbergh route" via Greenland and Iceland will not be used. Giant Clippers of the Martin and Sikorsky types will be flown by Pan American; Imperial may use the same planes or British planes of the same calibre...
...idea: to embark on major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare of torches to pick-ax frozen ground during the long Arctic nights. Censored sources presented the Stalin Canal as a glorious social achievement in which...