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Playing the Eastern circuit last week, Oklahoma A. & M. gave 18,102 Manhattanites a chance to size up its redhaired, 7-ft. Bob Kurland. the game's No. 1 tall timber. With Kurland collecting rebounds by the handful-his jumping reach is higher than the 10-ft.-high basket-unbeaten A. & M. humbled first-class N.Y.U., 44-to-41. (In another Madison Square Garden doubleheader, Muhlenberg's Mules, playing a cagey boring-in game, took St. Francis in stride, 56-to-18, for their sixth straight...
...Norway. Instead of their lease on Hangö, commanding the Gulf of Finland, Russia took a 50-year lease on the Porkkala Peninsula for a naval base. This brought the Russians within twelve miles of Helsinki. Russia also got back Viipuri, Finland's fourth biggest city. Parts of timber-rich Karelia were lost...
...regained Manchurlan land. "The rapid progress of recent Chinese immigration into Manchuria is almost unparalleled," he stated. "And Manchuria remains a veritable pioneer region--the area of its arable land still can be doubled, and so can its population. The potential values of the natural resources--iron ore, coal, timber, and oil shale--of the Manchurian hill lands in their relation to post-war industrialization are almost incalculable...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, back from his tour of the South Pacific, rented an 18-room, brick and timber house in Greens Farms, Conn., a quiet section of Westport, convenient to the four United Aircraft Corp. plants where he works as a consulting engineer. The house, on 14 acres of land, faces a road, is only 200 yards from his nearest neighbor...
...without having seen a German or fired a shot, the Canadians settled down for more training, more waiting. McNaughton tried to keep them busy with real work as well: Canadians helped England mine her coal and cut her timber. But they had gone to England to fight. Every one of them was a volunteer, and 20% or more of them were from those very French regions whose influence had prevented the Ottawa Government from sending conscripts overseas...