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...done with the bribe-bought co-operation of one of the last Celestials to wear the ancient Chinese pigtail, famed Prince Te. His Highness is the blandest foe of Soviet Russian influence, in Inner and Outer Mongolia. In effect the seizure of Pailingmiao, jabbed the Japanese spearhead 200 miles nearer to an ultimate clash with the Red Army of Joseph Stalin for the mastery of Eastern Asia...
United's Douglas order brings one step nearer the scheme of five major U. S. airlines to standardize equipment. For months United, American, Eastern Air, TWA and Pan American have discussed burying the competitive hatchet, pooling their resources to pay for a fleet of huge land airliners which would be twice the size of the DST, carry 40 passengers, mount four motors, cost $200,000 apiece. According to the "Big Five," such super-transports would enable the airlines to make money, cease being dependent upon airmail subsidies. At present, air traffic is increasing so rapidly that 14-passenger planes...
...Roosevelt's office to see, across one side of the room, a sight they had not seen in months. On easels near the back, newly mounted, freshly painted, stood a 6-ft. sailfish, last observed by the Press when the President landed it off Cocos Island in October. Nearer the front of the room doors were wide open to Franklin Roosevelt's fourth spring in the White House...
This week Cambridge has had another cold spell, and undergraduates have had some more skating on ice which was dangerously thin and appallingly rough, it is true but still ice. It is and that there is nothing nearer than the Ural Mountains to protect Cambridge from an East Wind. It has certainly seemed so to us walking to nine o'clock lectures these last few mornings...
...proposed International Collegiate Hockey League came a step nearer realization Saturday night as representatives of eight colleges of America and Canada drew up a tentative schedule and laid plans for the season...