Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass flight of Chinese was estimated to have pulled the population of Tsingtao down from 500,000 to 50,000. South of Shanghai, the great city of Hangchow was down from 500,000 to 150,000. Meanwhile native Chinese official communiques switched suddenly to a new technique of reporting the war. Instead of making the time-honored effort to fool the Chinese masses by telling them their troops were fighting bravely and that such-&-such a Chinese city would not surrender, the new Chinese newspaper refrain became: "When the Japanese capture the city they will find only ruins...
...Some 100,000 Chinese troops deployed under orders to defend Hangchow, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai, scattered in headlong flight last week and that great city fell to the Japanese-the sixth Chinese provincial capital taken since the present war began last July...
Notable, too, was Norman Soong's cool eyewitness account of the Panay bombing and sinking, and of the passengers' flight inland. At deferred press rate of 13? a word, that 5,220-word story was a bargain, would have been worth the 73?-a-word urgent cable rate used on the hottest news "breaks." Messrs. Mayell's and Alley's films of the power-diving Japanese planes will be something to see in the U. S. next week if local police departments do not censor them as too inflammatory...
...more famed U. S. lawyers is quick-tongued John Francis Neylan, for long William Randolph Hearst's chief attorney and at present counsel for badgered Herbert Fleishhacker, top-flight San Francisco financier & businessman. Lawyer Neylan was not in a happy mood last week. Not only had he and Client Fleishhacker just lost one damage suit in San Francisco (TIME, Dec. 20), but Federal Judge George Cosgrave, hearing another damage suit in Los Angeles, was handing him many an adverse ruling in testimony. Suddenly exasperated Lawyer...
...distilling vessel is pumped out leaving such a high vacuum that practically none is left, molecules flying off a hot distillate have "free paths"-that is, they are not interfered with in their flight. The free paths of molecules differ with their weight. Hence, by adjusting the distance between the hot surface of the distillate and a cold condensing surface, molecules can be separated by weight. "Dr. K. Hickman," said Dr. K. Hickman last week, ''began experiments in high-vacuum distillation in 1927. In 1931 he constructed the continuous molecular still and was able to separate from...