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After a month of butting against stubborn Chinese defenders at a dozen points along China's Yellow River, from the Great Wall pass in northwest Shansi to Chengchow, 300 miles to the southeast in Honan, Japanese forces finally secured a toehold on the Chinese-held south bank of the river at Szeshui, Honan Province, Chinese sources admitted last week. Main Japanese objective since their December capture of Nanking has been to sever the vital east-west lifeline of central China, the Lunghai Railway defended by the so-called "Chinese Hindenburg Line." The Lunghai Railway connects (via the Peking-Hankow...
...ground, dig in, attach themselves to a root at which they suck for 17 years. When the proper time arrives, they come out at dusk, climb a tree. In order to get out of the old shell in which it passed its infancy, the insect takes a firm toehold on the bark, arches its back. The shell splits and the cicada slowly works out of it. At this stage the insect is whitish, has red eyes. The frail, crumpled wings spread out and grow strong with incredible rapidity. By morning the cicadas have grown dark, are ready...
...working for him, was earning $25,000 per year. Local police were grateful for the effort and embarrassment he saved them. And then, last year, Congress passed the National Stolen Property Act making interstate transportation of stolen goods a Federal offense and giving Department of Justice agents a legal toehold on many big robberies...
...bank. His first independent venture, with a bankrupt store, was typical. Overnight he painted long rows of red footsteps leading to his shop, was arrested for defacing public property. But the judge let him off and the scheme worked. Just as he was getting a good toehold a long bout of sickness dropped him back to the beginning...
...largest motor-builders in the world; in Wayne, Mich., his Stinson Aircraft Corp.. biggest U. S. builders of cabin airplanes; in Cleveland his Smith Controllable Pitch Propeller Co.; and in Auburn, Ind., the great automobile plant where Errett Lobban Cord ten years ago got a toehold on Success...