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...open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city, the natives milled, and watched for the planes in terror. Only one in four reached a bomb shelter. That day 99 planes flew over...
...Welles entered the State Department, strode into the big, paper-cluttered office of his chief, Cordell Hull. Twenty-nine minutes later Mr. Welles, his face settled into its mask of boredom, Mr. Hull, with his patient, pallbearer's air, stepped along the rubber mat of the White House entrance; the gleaming glass-&-bronze doors swung wide under the hands of the blue-uniformed Negro doorman. Hats & coats taken, Messrs. Hull and Welles stepped into the whirring little elevator, creaked up to the oval second-floor study where sat Franklin Roosevelt at the huge desk carved from timbers...
...TIME should have known better. In World War I, as now, the rule is: against matériel, high-explosive shells; against personnel, shrapnel...
...over two years building trades have been curbed for the sake of war industries. By last week this had resulted in such a housing shortage that in Tokyo ten people were found living in many a six-mat room (nine by twelve feet...
...first time this year the wrestling team will enter a meet the underdog tomorrow when it takes to the mat against Navy at Annapolis...