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...whirled in from the Northwest, gathering strength as it ran. It powdered San Francisco and Los Angeles with their first snow in ten years, trailed a white swath across the Rockies, roared down upon the Middle West in a furious gale. It blotted out roads, stalled trains, buried cars. It was too big, too dangerous for even wartime censors to keep under their hats. U.S. weather bureaus dropped their gags and signaled warnings of the winter's first big storm to farmers, truckers, pilots, linesmen...
...Confederation of Mexican Workers) is a sprawling, squalling, squabbling, red and red-hot Mexican edition of C. I. O. Under socialistic President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) its million members rode wide and handsome, cutting a fancy swath of strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President...
...fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire was put out 30,000 people were homeless and an epidemic threatened...
...evening Lin Yutang had learned that from the point of view of destruction this was probably the worst raid Chungking had ever suffered. A huge swath of fire raged through the city's most crowded sector. Next morning Author Lin took a walk. He saw 10,000 homes burned or blasted; he saw people sleeping in the streets; and when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu...
Ponderous, expensive ($1,500 & up) was the combine of a decade ago, which cut a swath of eight feet or more, was used for little but wheat harvesting. Today its little brother is thoroughly at home among soybeans, cowpeas, small grains. Last year 80% of the 31,000 combines sold in the U. S. were little fellows six feet and under. Since U. S. farm buying power in 1939 rose 5% to $8,518,000,000, the industry cocks a hopeful eye at the 1,183,687 small farms in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin (not counting other hundreds...