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Blumberg spent two years research and $2,000 in perfecting the new design, which consists of three different instruments, showing horizontal motion in north-south and east-west direction, as well as vertical motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University's New-Type Seismograph Shows All Phases of Quake on Tape | 2/12/1948 | See Source »

Broken Cross. More bad news came from the "Chengchow cross," where the east-west Lunghai railroad intersects the rail line running south from Peiping to Hankow. By December, two Communist columns had broken the south and east arms of the cross. (The northern arm had been broken since the end of the Japanese war.) Another Communist army moving southward cut the west arm. The Communists appeared to have made good on their promise to "nail the Nationalists to the Chengchow cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Worse & Worse | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Without an armed force, the United Nations can do little to implement its own decisions, unless the Big Five should bridge the East-West gap. The India-Pakistan willingness to arbitrate their case points a way out of the impasse at Lake Success--if all nations want lasting peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Meeting of Minds | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...Kansas v. Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl (1:45 p.m., CBS); Penn State v. Southern Methodist in the Cotton Bowl (2:15 p.m., Mutual); Texas v. Alabama in the Sugar Bowl (2 :30 p.m., ABC); Southern California v. Michigan in the Rose Bowl (4:45 p.m., NBC); the East-West all-star championship game, in San Francisco's Kezar Stadium (4:45 p.m., Mutual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 29, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...Central China, usually free of strong Red forces, the Communists were rampaging along the strategic east-west Lunghai railway, and staging diversionary raids down to the Yangtze River...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Attrition | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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