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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...area's total trackage, pushes out to Kansas City and Omaha, gets a new Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago-St. Louis link with Wabash. With Norfolk & Western it taps the Pocahontas coal fields, gains a new port to the South. Detroit, Toledo & Ironton forms a useful North-South connection for its main stems...
...bombs & threats instead of by fierce fighting, so much the better for Japan. According to Chinese reports, Japanese soldiers have seized in Manchoukuo real estate, palaces and stocks of opium worth $10,000,000 belonging to General Tang. Better for Japan than realty and opium are the three main products of Eastern Inner Mongolia, about one of which Emperor Hirohito spoke last week: wool, hides, wheat. With extreme Oriental acumen Governor Tang rushed eight motor truck loads of "treasure" from Jehol into the Italian Settlement at Tientsin last week. Thus, if General Tang sides with Japan, the Japanese garrison...
...thrill meretricious. More valid is the leisurely charm of the studies of the pygmies, the hippopotamuses, the waterhole. Five minutes of rare comedy are developed from nothing but two pygmies' attempt to light a cigar. Probably anyone with the fare could have taken a sound camera along the main highways of African hunting country, but Martin & Osa Johnson did it first...
Inventor Macneil was not the only one playing last week with infra-red rays. At Schenectady, General Electric Co. installed in its main office an infra-red drinking fountain. When a drinker lowers his head over the fountain he intercepts the rays and a stream of water is turned on. Drinkers were at first too awed to drink...
...equip its expeditions with aircraft. For a year they will study weather, hunt for landing fields. Watkins' party will maintain two bases about 70 mi. apart near Angamagsalik, just south of the Arctic Circle. The Michigan group, which is associated with the International Polar Year research, will make its main camp about 100 mi. above Uperniski, several hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle. It will forge across the interior of the Greenland...