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...Nip the Boom? That there is a rip roaring building boom in the making was plain to everyone. But it was equally plain that a sudden rise in prices would take the steam out of the boom. Armed with the latest and one of the most comprehensive of building surveys, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM drove that point home this week. The FORUM found that 2,778,000 families are "good prospects" to buy or build houses. Some 70% of them plan to spend less than $8,000 and more than half of them have the cash in the bank...
...spearheads tipped by armored trains thrust eastward along the Chinese Eastern Railway toward Harbin, making gains up to 50 miles a day. On the north, the Amur River was crossed in two parallel pushes. From the Vladivostok panhandle, two more drives were launched, one westward along the railway to nip Harbin in a giant pincers, the other southward into Korea, where the port of Rashin was captured...
...Nip & Tuck. In San Pedro, Calif., a dog snapped at Private Michael Zanick's gun and holster, hung on until the gun went off, blasting Zanick's toe. In Manhattan, Mrs. Marie Zollinger leaned over to tuck in the bedding, was shot in the chest by the rifle her husband kept under the mattress...
...painted iron bed, which his daughter-in-law considers a monstrosity, is as chipped as a battleship's anchor. On the walls are a few Navy cutlasses. In a locker ("closet" to landlubbers) is a supply of brandy. The Admiral, who smokes furiously, drinks little, but relishes a nip of brandy in the evening...
Morale among the CATS is probably as high as in any training unit. Last week the first issue of Cat-Nip, in some respects similar to The Lucky Bag but with the Japanese words and phrases mingled with the more accustomed lingo, made its four-paged heliotyped appearance...