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...such a statement came last week from bony little Kenkichi Yoshizawa, head of Japan's economic mission to The Netherlands East Indies. He had been politely informed last fortnight that The Netherlands East Indies had not the least idea of allowing Japan increased shipments of rubber, oil and tin. Speaking over the telephone to the Tokyo press, Commissioner Yoshizawa said: "The choice before us would seem to be either statesmanship or physical force...
...pilot dropped to 100 feet, skidded his Beaufort around the stern of one of the port-flanking destroyers, squared away, launched a tin fish, and sheered off to the left within 100 yards of the pocket battleship's bow. There was a tense pause. Then the rear gunner shouted: "There's a column of water!" The pilot banked to have a look, and all he could see was what seemed to him a beautiful cloud of dirty white smoke...
...case of coffee was merely last week's example of the conflict in policy among the Government's various arms. Many another import commodity-copper, rubber, tin. tungsten-has felt the conflict too. New Dealers figured there was only one ultimate solution: a Government import monopoly, next step toward total economic...
...great deal of its knowledge about sex practices to Dr. Dickinson. A pioneer in the birth-control movement, he traveled round the world several times, quizzing prostitutes in Berlin, Paris, Shanghai. With Dr. Howard Canning Taylor and such top-flight specialists as Drs. Frederick Clark Holden and Franklin Mar tin as members, he formed the American Gynecological Travel Club, which went all over the U.S. and Europe, observing operations in different clinics, exchanging information on techniques. "In those days," he told some of his admirers last week, "we used to hold a spare knife between our teeth...
None of the topical war songs ground out by the composers of Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley) has excited Britain's armed forces. Latest try is Thanks, Mister Roosevelt, whose chorus concludes...