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Walker's words flashed across 7,000 miles of ocean via U.S. Army Signal Corps circuits to San Francisco. And there the monitors of the Blue Network picked them up-recorded them-wrote them down-and wired them east by fast overland telegraph-to reach TIME'S editors in New York in less than an hour's time...
...supply its Kwantung Army in Manchuria and its growing legions in China, Japan has begun to lean more heavily upon its steel industry in Manchuria. Blast furnaces there are closer to the source of coking coal, and the finished products can be shipped overland to the armies, easing the burden on the Japs' overtaxed, dwindling ship tonnage. Greatest of the steel works in Manchuria is at Anshan...
Cost of the Loss. If the Japanese take Kweilin, they will: 1) deprive free China of the rice, manufactures and other resources which come from the southern coast provinces; 2) win the chance to open an overland route to Indo China; 3) cut off the U.S. air force in China from the bases whence it has raided Japanese shipping and supported the now almost exhausted Chinese armies behind the coast...
Leading the team from the tailback spot will be Ed Navin, flashy runner and pass-heaver. In the Saturday scrimmage, Navin accounted for the afternoon's only score almost single-handedly. He passed his squad down to the 15 yard stripe and drove it overland from there to the one on two plays, after which Bill Jenkins took it across...
Since early June when Charlie Sorensen quit Ford and moved in as president of Willys-Overland (TIME, June 19), auto shares have sped ahead in Wall Street trading. In a one million-share day, 50% of the volume was accounted for by these favorites. In recent weeks main gains were scored by: Willys-Overland, which jumped from 8⅛ to 20⅛; Graham-Paige, which went from 3 to 7; and Hupp Motors, which moved up from...