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...only one of their stratagems. For the most part they organize "thieving parties" to carry off rails and telephone poles. Some 200 farmers near Paoting, 90 miles south of Peiping, devote two nights a week to demolition work. In one night they can tear up and hide ten rails, chop down 28 poles...
...Japanese hands the whole British stake in the Far East might have been lost, some ?500,000,000 or more. In case of war German guns already installed within range of Gibraltar might have cut the British lifeline there, and Italy might have used her navy & air force to chop up the same lifeline at Suez and in the Mediterranean, although Mussolini & Franco might have done what Italy did in 1915, change sides for a fancy price to join Britain & France...
...death sentence" (section 11B) of the Act provides that once the utility holding companies have registered, SEC has the power to force simplification of any utility pyramid into a single geographically integrated system. Most commentators have expected that whatever company Bill Douglas chose to chop up first would ap peal the "death sentence" to the Supreme Court. Here, Bill Douglas was smart - he picked $303,813,000 Utilities Power & Light, which is already in 776 receivership. SEC must pass on such reorganizations anyway. Last week, Chairman Douglas jubilantly called newshawks to his office, announced that it would be unfair...
...George Gershwin of France's Second Empire was mutton-chop-whiskered Jacques Offenbach. Stuffy politicians, high-toned artists, bombastic literati winced at his satirical songs. All Paris, from the Empress Eugénie to the trollops of the Quartier Latin gobbled up his tunes as fast as they came. He wrote nearly 100 operettas, which drew delighted applause in every pleasure-loving city from St. Petersburg to New Orleans...
Chinese 3a and 3b meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from noon to 1:30 o'clock. They are getting sick of being pestered with queries as to whether the class consists of a bowl of chop suey eaten chop-chop (quickly) with chop sticks or whether they don't eat at all. It is just another example of New England's smugness that they don't realize that at that time here it is 1:00 to 2:30 o'clock in the morning in China, and that they are asleep at that time...