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...shag is passe; the rhumba, conga, and samba are now in vogue. Hollywood has turned towards Latin-America for inspiration, talent, and color. The course enrollments in Spanish and Portuguese have increased noticeably during the past year. Americans are looking southward with benevolent smiles and shiny gold dollars. There is no doubt that America has gone the South American way for a very good reason: there is practically unanimous agreement that it is to our interest to keep Hitler and war from the Western Hemisphere...
While Washington pondered, the Japanese continued to consolidate their gains in French Indo-China, moving southward toward Singapore (see p. 50). They worked to reach an agreement with Russia that would enable them to close the China Incident. The little yellow men were out to see whether the U. S. would scare. A firm U. S.-British stand on aid to China via the Burma Road, plus naval cooperation in the Far East, might scare them instead. If neither side would scare, there was a better than even chance...
...more difficult for Germany than the invasion of Poland was a year ago. The Ukraine, like Poland, is almost entirely flat so that motorized columns can romp over it at will unless they meet their military match. The only major obstacles of terrain are the great rivers which flow southward into the Black Sea. While the Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which...
...twelve years, Pan American Airways Corp. has had a U. S. monopoly on intercontinental air transportation. Its huge Sikorskys, Boeings, Martins and Douglases have flashed through skies clear of competition, except for three or four weaker foreign-owned airlines. An aerial trail blazer, Pan Am has nosed southward into South America; westward to Hawaii, China, Australia, New Zealand; eastward to Europe. With few rivals, Pan Am could take its time pathfinding, make sure its explorations would pay. It has made money since 1931, $1,984,000 last year...
...Strait southwestward to the Arabian Sea, Nichi Nichi drew a line which almost coincides with the frontiers of Siberia, giving Japan's Greater East Asia all of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and India. The coast line of East Asia, said Nichi Nichi, extends "from Northern Nippon southward to Indonesia, then westward to Ceylon. Asia's history shows how long there has been intercourse along this coast line. No matter how we look at this East Asia, it is a natural and inseparable unit...