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Those Who Run Away. With Harrison Forman of the London Times I arrived in a town called Tunghsientien, a funnel through which refugees pour out of Honan. The refugees are stuffed into boxcars, flatcars, old coaches, layer upon layer deep. They are crowded on the roofs, children, old men & women clinging to any possible fingergrip as the trains hurtle along. Sometimes their fingers get so numb from the cold they fall off. The trains never halt...
...bakery rooms is scented with the smell of warm bread, which pops and crackles invitingly in its great wire racks. Near the entrance looms a massive mixer, easily twice the height of the average man. Flour and other ingredients are sifted into a great mixing tub from a high funnel-shaped inlet and then kneaded by long-armed paddles...
...tiny barges poled by leisurely boatmen. By next May, when the Central American links of the Inter-American Highway are scheduled to be completed, there will at last be a continuous overland route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone. Mexico's spindly transportation system will then funnel a vastly greater flow of traffic...
...organization will hold monthly meetings and bi-weekly bulletins will be issued. Its purpose is to exchange information and ideas, and to funnel information from the OCD, the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety, and similar bodies...
...electric eye" has a new use in protecting ships at sea from submarines. An electronic tube mounted in the ship's funnel warns the engine room whenever poor combustion allows smoke to form, thus prevents the black plume which reveals a ship's position far below the horizon...