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...maneuvers around Wanpinhsien and Lu-kouchiao." These two centres soon saw pitched battles in which 16 Japanese and some 200 Chinese were killed, with Japanese artillery plunking poorly aimed shells, one of which landed in the empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened fire before the Japanese "fired first," but the Chinese Government at Nanking for the first time began acting as if it were ready for war with Japan...
High Pitched Whistle. In Spain it was clearer than ever that the extent of foreign intervention on one side or the other would decide the civil war. Except for the steady Rightist advance upon Santander, activity was at a minimum and correspondents had opportunity to fill in with colorful dispatches...
...simple troubles, and attribute the most charming reactions to them!" With a twinkle Wells implies: perhaps the Martians feel sentimentally indulgent towards us. Anyhow he still sticks to his hopeful story, Martians or no Martians: "A new sort of mind is coming into the world, with a new, simpler, clearer, and more powerful way of thinking. That I think is manifest. It has already got into operation individually here and there and produced a sort of disorder of innovation in human affairs...
...which is doubtful, that the bombing of Almeria "closes the incident," then it is just as well that the President has not ventured into deep waters by declaring her a belligerent. Too much caution is better than too little in international affairs. Another such incident will make the situation clearer, and then will be the time to reverse Mr. Hull's present decision...
...industrial issues the current downswing appeared even clearer than in the averages. Leader of the booming winter market, U. S. Steel has sold off from a high of $126 per share to a low last week of $93. Chrysler was down from a 1937 high of $135 to $106; Radio from $12.75 to about $8.75; U. S. Rubber from $72 to $52, Nash-Kelvinator from nearly $25 to $18; U. S. Gypsum from $137 to $107; General Electric from $64 to $50. Even such a symbol of stability as American Telephone & Telegraph was off 24 points from its 1937 high...