Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before negotiations start...
...truce simply provided that the two armies "cease all military action on August 11 at midday, local time." According to official Red Army communiques from the scene, this left a Japanese force extending 650 feet into what Russia considers Soviet soil and a Soviet force extending at a different point 980 feet into what Japan considers Manchukuoan soil...
...Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, Dr. Perry concluded: "This interpretation, which . . . shifts the emphasis from light affecting the animal to light producing a change in the diet, may well apply to the seasonal sexual development of other vertebrates as well.* The results . . . point to an increase of Vitamin D or some kindred substance as the specific dietary factor...
...trend. Meanwhile, business indices indicated no serious relapse into Depression. Steel production last week was still about 40% of capacity; carloadings were down 8% from the previous week; automobile output at 13,790 units was the year's lowest. Counterbalancing such statistics, power production climbed to the highest point since January, bank debits rose 10%. Detroit wires hummed with thousands of telegrams ordering laid-off workers back to the plants to prepare for what Ward's Automotive Reports foresaw as "a steady rise until November or December...
...business leaders as a group tot up these mixed figures was last week ascertained by Chairman George A. Sloan of the Consumers' Goods Industries Committee, who compiled a survey of opinion. He announced: "Reports . . . point to some definite improvements in demand and production and more especially in morale. . . . By and large these reports present evidence of hope and expectation rather than any material realization...