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...cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet of Pablum, orange juice, milk, honey, raw eggs...
Paradise lies to the west. Across the mountains there is a rolling country of bamboo, rubber plantations, tin mines: a country divided by a network of good roads, cut up by rice paddies, full of people and not beasts. It is washed by the quiet Malacca Strait, sheltered by the long Island of Sumatra...
...wines. He also relaxed his golf from 36 holes three times a week to 18 holes. But he is still a walking edition of Bartlett's Quotations, still a perfectionist in grammar, spelling, punctuation. (Result of this finickiness is a shining absence in the Free Press of the bamboo English that creeps into most Far Eastern English-language papers.) Moreover, he intends to run his paper as long as he lives and will it to his second-in-command, F. Theo. Rogers, and to his staff. He doesn't think that either war with Japan or Philippines independence...
With the help of some coolies, Woods dragged the hurt plane off the field and three miles down a road to hide it in a clump of bamboo. He feared the Japanese would return. They did. For three days, flights totaling 57 Japanese bombers scoured the countryside around Suifu, but the bamboo camouflage fooled them...
Surabaya, Java, for air-raid shelters, recently dug trenches, screened them with bamboo as protection against bomb splinters and flying debris. Last week travelers from Java reported that a few weeks after the shelters were built pleased natives wrote a letter of thanks to the Government. "Thank you very much for the new W.C.s," said the letter. "We have needed them for a long time." Dutch officers hastily inspected the new shelters, found the letter was no joke...