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...first postwar car to go on sale in the U.S. arrived in New York by ship this week. It was a small, British-built, ten-horsepower Austin sedan. It was also the first evidence that Britain is in a hurry to carry out her export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never...
Chinese traffic is a cacophonous confusion. Rickshas, passenger wheelbarrows, pedestrians with bound feet, pigs, dogs, chickens, ducks, sedan chairs, porters shouldering loads on swaying bamboo poles, buffalo and pony carts, busses, trucks, automobiles, jeeps move, when they succeed in moving at all, to the left in China's streets. Last week the Chinese press undertook to get all this confusion moving to the right...
Tradition was invoked. Said Hsin Ming Wan Pao: In the old days when sedan chairs met on a path, the coolies shouted: "Yu pien chou!-Keep to the right!" In Manchu days, Shih Chieh Jih Pao noted, all officials entered the Imperial court on the right-hand side. Said the official Chung Yang Jih Pao: "Keeping to the left is not our ancient system. ... In the old Chinese dictionary . . . right meant high, good, strength. . . . The right occupation is the high occupation, the right party is the government party. Left means inconvenience, unrighteousness, debasement; the left way means the evil...
...bicycles, when obtainable, cost $400. A 1941 Ford sedan sells for $5,000. Nor are the prices in the restaurants and honky-tonk nightclubs any lower: $5 for a small drink of U.S. whiskey...
...engineered the breakthrough at Sedan in 1940, the sweep through the Ukraine in 1941, the Battle of the Bulge-and the loss of Normandy and the Rhine-told U.S. correspondents that Allied air power was the biggest factor in Germany's defeat. He said that Hitler had ordered the Ardennes counteroffensive which almost reached the rear supply areas of the U.S. First Army; that Hitler had passed on every major military decision since the start of the war, and that he had ''good intuition." Rundstedt did not doubt that Hitler had died, as represented, on the Berlin...