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...like the French Maginot Line, but over a period of years the Chinese have built important numbers of cement pillbox forts in a sausage-shaped area. This is traversed by the curiously named Lung-hai Railway, so called because it starts from the sea at Haichow and penetrates far inland toward Lung mountain in Kansu, forming today the sole rail link down which Soviet munitions are brought to aid China. Chinese troops held towns far on the other side of the Hindenburg Line, and Chinese Communist forces were operating in Hopeh last week with such success that at times...
According to Governor Martin of Oregon, the southwestern corner of that State "has greater potential values than any other undeveloped section of the U. S." Crammed with 4,000-foot mountain chains, this wilderness has only three connections with civilization-a highway up the coast and 50 miles inland a parallel highway and Southern Pacific R. R. line. Between are said to lie rich deposits of chrome, copper, gold, iron, coal, limestone and platinum beneath an evergreen blanket of several billion feet of virgin timber. To exploit this domain has been a local dream for 50 years but only...
Roger N. Baldwin '05, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Clarence B. Randall '12, Vice-President, and Director of the Inland Steel Company have been selected to give lectures under the Godkin Foundation on April 25, 26, 28, and 29 on "Civil Liberties and Industrial Conflict...
...Chinese last week continued their magnificent defense of their so-called "Hindenburg Line" (TIME, March 21), protecting the vital east-west Lunghai Railroad, showed stubborn resistance particularly at Kaifeng, some 300 miles inland from the Yellow Sea. Jubilantly, Chinese General Hsu Pei-ken, press officer to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, declared, "The Japanese are in the soup...
...here, there & everywhere, Indianapolis' Mayor Walter C. Boetcher and Airport Manager Nish Dienhart descended on Washington, grandly offered the north-west 400 acres of their new 974-acre, $1,500,000 municipal airport to the B. A. C. as a free gift from a great-hearted city. Safely inland in case of war, less than eight miles from downtown Monument Circle, the airport is completely equipped, free of obstructions, has unlimited acreage for expansion, and would make an ideal permanent test field. To make B. A. C. feel at home, the city is prepared to float...