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Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
...prevented from supplying markets, Government officials had to suspend vital work, laborers could do nothing after raids but gorge and go to sleep. Citizens tried to leave town, but were caught by new raids before they could get away. Chungking's foreign newsmen were inconvenienced when the Press Hostel-their home and office-crumbled under three direct hits. Terrific August heat made the dugouts too small and too smelly...
...than brick and mortar. The adaptable citizens of Chungking immediately started enlarging dugouts, so that work could be carried on there. Mass evacuations to the country began. The no-immediate-danger signal was sounded sooner, so that dugout denizens could get more air. Construction began on a new Press Hostel...
...known the employees' plan is the first such group "hostel" project to be put into operation for the refugee children in the United States...
...children are to be drawn from families in the lower income levels living in the British danger zones. First announcement of the hostel plan was sent out today to the 3,000 non-faculty employees by the employee committee...