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Water for an I.O.U. Author Braddon lived to know new horrors which made those of Pudu fade away like old insect bites. He was marched to Thailand and assigned to the work gang building a Bangkok-to-Rangoon railroad. "Down there is much malaria-tomorrow you will be dead," said his guards mockingly. Countless Britishers and an estimated 130,000 Malay natives learned that the Japs were telling close to the brutal truth. Every crosstie under 400 miles of track was paid for with a human life, though, thanks to R.A.F. bombers, no train ever completed a trip. Author Braddon...
...pleasant thing to see vests selling for two bits, and they actually do in some places--not in Rangoon, but right in Filene's Basement. As the buying wave on vests increases, however, two bit vests are bound to become scarce...
...Forces sent him to India, where he flew a flock of missions out of a funny little strip at Ondal. He could give a Zero half a turn and still nail it in his sights. And one day he buzzed the airfield at Rangoon just to drop some comic books...
...present Burmese cabinet, for instance, is made up almost entirely of the 1938-39 Student Union officials of Rangoon University...
Members of the mission were most impressed by the complete autonomy of Harvard and Yale. Kuang was proud to say that the University of Rangoon has now reached such a state...