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After long, bitter weeks of misunderstanding, Chungking reported that the Chinese had at last reached an understanding with Great Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell. King George conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The Chinese now feel free to send additional troops into Burma. There they fight under their own commanders, who are in turn responsible to Chiang Kai-shek's Chief of Staff, U.S. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell...
...Clothing sufficient for the moment, but 120 pairs of shoes requested as soon as possible. Daily laundering; good hygiene; large hot Japanese bath daily for workers and weekly for others. Latrines clean...
These sharp etchings of Kings & Desperate Men are set off by broader and blander portrayals of the aristocrats; country gentlemen; the Universities; Bath ("Farewell, dear Bath," said a lady of fashion, "nowhere so much scandal, no where so little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward...
Ranging from a model of several Eskimos doing a dance in a steam sweat bath to priceless Chinese pottery dug up in the Philippines, the exhibition is arranged in such a way that the visitor follows a definite series of displays. To make sure that the spectator follows the correct order, Frederick Pleasants, who directed the construction of the room, placed show cases, and the large boards on which-the exhibits are arranged, in various positions around the room, and sent students wandering through the maze...
...Excellent. This was one answer. The next had to come from builders. On a frozen marshland in South Portland, Me., Todd-Bath had laid out a yard in mid-winter of 1941. Six months later the Maine builders laid the first keels of a British contract for 30 of the British prototypes, launched the first two by Dec. 20. Todd-Richmond in California, with 30 more to build for England, had one launched, delivered and bustling off to Britain ten months after signing the contract...