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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...
...Persons from inland Europe are brachycephalic or short-headed, while their children reared in New York and Boston become much more long-headed or dolichocephalic. This reaction may be due to the more favorable physiological action of the thyroid gland in a maritime environment, since the inland Continental regions are so frequently low in surface iodine and thyroid disturbances are prevalent...
During the second period of Stockton's struggle to the sea, another inland city, Houston, was also dredging itself an ocean port. Directing this development was a young Chicagoan, Benjamin Casey ("Benjy") Allin, who until the War's end was a captain of engineers. At Houston, Engineer Allin found 50 miles from the Gulf of Mexico a ghost port over whose wharves but a few hundred thousand tons of freight passed each year. After twelve years of Benjy Allin's management, Houston, with 16,000,000 tons of shipping in 1935, was fourth ocean port...
...Dalles, Ore. On the side of older ports are most ship line owners because of established handling facilities of their own and maintenance of present schedules at existing ports. Potent argument of shipowners against recognition of Stockton is that with calls to make at perhaps dozens of inland ports, shipping rates must certainly rise beyond anything hitherto contemplated...
...main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally as well as nationally are to be expected if the [war] disturbances cause a breakdown in the quarantine services and thus lead to the transmission of plague infection...