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Urged by Dean Chen, the Chinese Government as a partial remedy moved to revive rural China's ancient festival days, last week stuck a batch of these into its New Style Calendar. Next chieh-chi (traditional festival) will be Li Hsia (Summer Commences) on May 6. The festivities: "Finding out weights of family members. Eating of beans...
Extremists both North and South make the solution of this problem tougher. In Manhattan sits the unofficial Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc. Taking a they-hired-the-money attitude, it protests partial settlement offers by the debt-laden Republics, thereby revives traditional Latin American resentment against the Shylock of the North. Extremists in the South are hardboiled governments (Mexico's, Bolivia's) which assume that the U. S. has the jitters. Eager to capitalize on Washington's fear that the Fascist axis will undermine the Monroe Doctrine, they would kid the U. S. into canceling the bonds...
Last week utility investors got a whiff of further equity offerings to come. Answering SEC's demand for an integration plan, far-flung Standard Gas & Electric announced "partial compliance." It proposed to sell control of its properties in California and the Northwest to holders of (and in exchange for) its own notes and debentures, thus freeing three subsidiaries, retiring part of its debt, reducing its own size. Last month SECommissioner Mathews accepted a job with the Standard Gas system because Standard's management had convinced him that it was trying to comply with the spirit of the Holding...
...contrast to a complete lunar or "umbral" eclipse, when the moon passes through the direct shadow of the earth, this affair is called "penumbral" because the moon merely travels through the outer, partial shadow, just missing the earth's direct shadow by a few minutes...
Main cause of the deep middle-ear deafness which afflicts 5,000,000 people in the U. S. is otosclerosis, a bony overgrowth blocking off the window which leads to the inner ear. Most operations designed to open a window may be dangerous, for they involve partial destruction of the heavy mastoid bone. Dr. Lempert cuts directly through the ear (see cut), and carves out a brand-new window. With a dentist's burr, he drills into the middle ear, drills out a new window in one of the semicircular canals and rearranges hammer, anvil and stirrup...