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...huge hills it is as easy to see as a yellow ribbon binding a pile of green bundles. That it has not been permanently cut has been due to the halfheartedness and poor aim of Japanese bombers, and to the amazing Chinese capacity for regeneration. Thousands of coolies mend steel bridges with bamboo and rope, fill craters and landslides with little basketfuls of dirt...
With his fractured ankle now well on the mend, he stumped about, a dour Scottish captain dogging his trail. But London reports had him mum and sullen, complaining at being given ordinary food, demanding "extras" for which he said he had money to pay, piqued because no Cabinet ministers had yet visited...
After 21 months of a battle royal between Hearst's Good Housekeeping, biggest ad-carrier among women's magazines, and the Federal Trade Commission, FTC last week cracked down. It ordered Good Housekeeping to mend its practice of issuing "Tested and Approved'' seals vouching for the worth of advertised products tested by Good Housekeeping Institute and Good Housekeeping Bureau...
...German was very agreeable. David's family gave him tea, which he refused in favor of water, and some soldiers came up and took him off to a Glasgow hospital to mend his broken ankle. He was removed to "an unspecified destination." The British Ministry of Information identified the airman prisoner. Then it bided its time, waited for the Germans to break its story. When the hallucination-disappearance yarn came from Berlin, Minister Alfred Duff Cooper and his men called in the London newspapermen on Monday night and. dancing with excitement, broke this war's, or any other...
...Some 8,000 evacuees now occupy 31 new national camp schools run by the Government. They live in cedar houses, have plenty of room to play. They learn, besides ABCs, to garden and mend shoes, and they enjoy getting even with unpopular masters by calling them such names as "Old Heinkel" and "Dive-Bombing Smith." Each camp (enrollment: about 250) costs around $150,000 to build and $30,000 a year to run. So popular are they that the Government indicated they might be continued after...