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...ships would also be searched for contraband if they put in at Chinese ports. Despite this neither London nor Washington put down a firm foot even when the British freighter Shengking, on its way to evacuate refugees from Shanghai, was questioned by a Japanese warship before being allowed to plow up the Whangpoo. Meanwhile the blockade not only cut off Chinese supplies but hit the Chinese treasury by reducing the collection of customs revenues...
...foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that play in and out of The Spanish Earth were arranged by two of the most imaginative modern musicians in the U. S.-Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Plow That Broke the Plains) and Marc Blitzstein (The. Cradle Witt Rock...
Next came the plow posture, "one of the finest exercises for keeping the spine flexible and the nerves healthy." The disciple lies on his back, slowly brings legs and torso over his head until the toes touch the floor and he can gaze only at his navel...
...last week, after a change in the seatings, the Tiger crew went on a time trial and smashed their Lake Carnegio course record. Their confidence waned as they watched a Harvard Jayvee boat plow through sloppy water to make up a deficit of more than a length and cross the finish line in a blaze of glory...
Last week, as Germany's fat lands rolled sweetly to the plow, General Goring drastically pointed up the Four-Year Plan to embrace agriculture, announced that the Reich would grant farmers much vaster annual subsidies than ever before- 200,000,000 marks ($80,000,000) in 1937, increasing progressively to 300,000,000 ($120,000,000) in 1940 and making a grand four-year total of 1,000,000,000 ($400,000,000). Thus was inaugurated for Nazis a sort of inverted AAA whereby German farmers will be paid to produce crops & not to limit them...