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...India Allah Bakhsh's stand carried weight. In London it and a flood of other protestations over the mishandling of the Indian crisis apparently carried none. The House of Commons debated a new India Bill (to bypass court appeals in cases of military executions). When Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India, announced that British planes were being used to machine-gun mobs in Bihar Province (TIME, Oct. 5), Tory backbenchers burst into cheers...
Hardest to regulate will be the 1,047,000 trucks owned by farmers or leased to carry farm products. Without trucks many farm crops could not get to market, but many truck loads of farm products bypass local markets and rail terminals, travel hundreds of miles to save a few cents' freight, and return empty...
...Olympic Hotel youngsters jam the ballroom; about 90% of the boys are in uniform. In private clubs (only in clubs can liquor be sold by the drink) business has doubled, and clanging slot machines often pay all a club's operating expenses. Unlike most cities, Seattle revelers bypass cancan shows, prefer jugglers, acrobats, assorted vaudeville acts with their alcohol...
...87th Infantry Mountain Regiment (first in the U.S. Army) has four components: 1) hand-led mules with equipment (weapons of various calibers, tents, stoves, etc.); 2) mules with supplies (food and extra ammunition), traveling 52 in a herd with 16 soldiers mounted; 3) trucks, which leave the troops to bypass rough terrain; 4) men on foot...
...Japan wants the rich (oil, tin, rubber, etc.) Netherlands East Indies. But the path to the South China Sea is watched by many policemen. Headed southward, Japan will have to pass Manila, with its complement of bombers. She must risk a full-out attack on the Philippine defenses or bypass them...