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...third of China's undergraduates rallied in the hills of North China and organized a guerrilla army, as China fought for its life, the Chinese Government calmly laid plans for China's future. Of coolie cannon fodder it had a plenty, but in all China there were only a few hundred mechanics, a few dozen engineers, few doctors, few scientists. The hope of China's survival lay in such trained men. In that first summer of the war, China's Education Ministry secretly sent students to Tientsin, Peking, other university centres, through them transmitted instructions...
...TIME'S figures were correct but badly stated-Denmark produced one-half of the bacon, one-quarter of the butter, eggs in international trade. As to self-sufficiency: in 1936, a typical year, only about 13% of Danish grain and fodder was imported-which is not to minimize Germany's future troubles in supplying that quantity. Authorities: Statesman's Year-Book, League of Nations Statistical Year-Book 1938-39, The Northern Countries in World Economy and Denmark 1937 (both official publications...
...Beards, America In Midpassage, p. 137, satirically etch from Democratic campaign fodder-"Mr. Garner, in the revered American tradition, was born in a log cabin." Does TIME, Beards, or Democratic Campaign Book...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...
...Denmark, Herr Hitler got something good. Denmark produces one-half of the entire world supply of bacon, one-quarter of the butter, one-quarter of the eggs. Its economy is 35% agricultural and, like neither Norway nor Sweden, it is almost self-sufficient. Denmark grows most of the fodder needed to feed its 564,000 horses, 2,845,000 pigs, 3,183,000 cattle, 27,600,000 cocks and hens. By "protecting" Denmark, Germany assured itself of a margin of food for want of which the German population might have revolted. The Danes themselves were rationed to a maximum four...