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...More Sunshine." In Soviet foreign propaganda organs, Birobidjan is described as the "Pearl of the Far East." Last week's advertisements gave details. Birobidjan was on the same latitude as Duluth, Minn., "but with lots more sunshine." Its fertile soil yielded rich crops (wheat, oats, cabbage, rice, soy beans). Its natural resources were rich and variegated (coal, iron ore, gold, graphite, marble, magnesite). Its woods teemed with fur-bearing animals. "According to scientific surveys," the region could maintain a population of at least four million...
...incredible experimental injections by Captain Hisikichi Tokoda, a 29-year-old Japanese physician. Dr. Harold W. Keschner, an Army officer captured at Bataan, described Captain Tokoda's medieval brews. Into tubercular men he injected an acid mixed with infected bile. Once he squeezed a milk of ground soy beans into the jugular veins of two men. All died. Into the bloodstreams of others he injected mixtures of castor oil and sulphur, of acid, ether and blood plasma. Despite all this, Shinagawa was regarded as a "showplace" and was proudly exhibited to visiting Jap generals...
...Ridgely, Craig Stevens and Jack Carson, are joined in their already overflowing "bridal" suite by such incongruities as 1) an exuberant Russian lady sniper (Eve Arden), who insists on firing three-gun salutes out the window, 2) a pompous bureaucrat (John Alexander), who is investigating a process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest. This screen version of The Doughgirls is even louder than the stage original...
...Japs had expected a long stay on Attu. Their food supplies were ample: shrimp and crab meat and bamboo shoots, spices and soy sauce and dried black seaweed for flavoring rice. They varied this diet by catching salmon and halibut, shooting Emperor geese and Yukon River ducks. They had hundreds of gallons of sake...
...meant the sun and the wind, which would heal wounds and quiet a torn land. Mexico was sick of being pulled leftward by Communists, rightward by Fascists. To deeply religious Mexicans, Avila Camacho stood for the middle way, the return to quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente por la buena es negativo" (That which...