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...from the Philippines and Netherlands Indies; soybeans from China. Lumber, especially for shipping, worries her a little. For the time being, she is well set for aircraft machinery but needs certain precision tools and parts, such as exact ball bearings. She does not worry about bombings as long as Shangri-La is farther from Tokyo and much more uncertain than Britain in relation to the Ruhr. Industrially, Japan is by no means near collapse...
...Tokyo radio said last week that the Shangri-La from which Major General James H. Doolittle came to raid Tokyo last April 18 was the late aircraft carrier Hornet. "Our Imperial air units," said the broadcast, "have been concentrating on this ship"; and its sinking was "revenge for the raid [which] can never be forgotten by the 100,000,000 Japanese people...
...later performance for 4,000 more WAACS in Des Moines's Coliseum, pandemonium re-exploded. Hope left town with Stardust in his eyes, murmuring, "A comedian's Shangri...
News from Shangri-La. The Berlin radio played up the Tokyo reports about the U.S. flyers. So did the U.S. press-and, in addition to concern for the flyers, Americans once again had cause to worry about the accuracy of official war reports from Washington...
...timid map-maker, Charles Butterworth, who comes home one day to find his whole family engaged in war work of one kind or another. Trying to keep in step, he gets pushed around mercilessly until he conceives the idea of trapping the Jap fleet with a phoney map of Shangri-La. After an interlude in a Jap internment camp done with extremely poor taste, the map is found to be genuine; but Papa saves the day by informing the U. S. forces of some nearby islands that would rise above water on the next...