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With campus and equipment gone, Yenching makes shift in three middle and primary school buildings in Chengtu, limits its enrollment to about 250 (a quarter of its pre-war students). But 3,000 candidates, a record for a missionary college anywhere, anytime, took its entrance examinations...
Arguing that a return to pre-war capitalism would throw Europe into an unprecedented depression at once, Cole submits that the Continent can be peacefully reorganized only if it goes thoroughly Socialist. But, not content with disturbing the cast-iron conservative, the author proceeds to enrage the party-line communist as well. He admits quite candidly that Russia's political structure since 1919 has been illiberal by Western standards, and that Stalin's foreign policy up to June, 1941, was "extraordinarily and perversely blind." This strain of independent mental toughness, of a search for concrete solutions rather than purity...
...flying red horse (Mobilgas), fireman's hat (Texaco), sea shell (Shell Petroleum) and other symbols of pre-war preferences in gasolines may still swing in the wind, but the pumps under the signs are soon likely to squirt only one kind and color. Last week WPB empowered the Petroleum Coordinator to pool gasoline distribution, which will probably mean mixed brands and minimum standards, with only the "regular" grade available. Even this will not be so regular as before: octane ratings were cut to around 74 last February; henceforth, according to one industry guess, they will run about...
...pre-war days the Japs had plenty of opportunity to pick up plane pointers from sales-minded U.S. and European manufacturers. They bought one, two, or a few of each type that looked good, and immediately set about copying them. United Aircraft's Pratt & Whitney and Curtiss-Wright's Wright Aeronautical Corp. licensed Japanese manufacturers to make certain types of their motors. Hamilton Standard (propellers) sold their plans outright. Douglas Aircraft sold them the original...
Cold statistics (the seating capacity of the dining halls is about sixty-five percent of the number expected to be using them) make it plain that the traditional 8:29 1/2 morning rush for toast and coffee has gone the way of many another pre-war luxury...