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...Shinto. But elsewhere in the Japanese Empire both Catholics and Protestants, with the sanction of their home mission boards, have paid obeisance at the shrines-thereby, according to many strict believers, taking the first step in apostasy. Early Christians chose martyrdom rather than do the same thing; make a token obeisance to the deified emperor of Rome...
...solemnly served them while umpires stretched their imaginations. There were few .50-calibre anti-aircraft guns. The shortage was made up by lettering ".50-calibre" on a pie plate, pasting it on the side of a Springfield rifle. Except for the regular outfits, no regiments had more than a token equipment of the Army's new Garand semi-automatic rifle. Except for the regulars, no outfit was completely motor-equipped. Hundreds of trucks and sedans were rented by the day from civilians to fill out the National Guard's complement of rolling stock...
...measure of goods consumption, bank debits include too many other transactions to be reliable. But by the same token they measure general spending better than such partial indexes as retail sales. Bank debits include checks drawn by little businesses as well as big, the checks cashed by small employers to pay their help, the checks with which individuals pay their bills, etc. (Bank debits in 131 trade centres after seasonal adjustment recently declined so severely that it was the major factor which last week carried TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to a new two-year...
...There is no provision in British law for resigning from the House of Commons, but a member loses his seat by elevation to the peerage or taking a post such as one of the virtually imaginary stewardships of the Chiltern Hundreds, nominal jobs with token pay and no duties...
...export sales, Franco might be induced to let I. T. & T. keep part of its foreign exchange, show Spanish profits again for U. S. stockholders. For Spain, weak on exportable products such as Behn's plant can give ner, needs foreign credits to buy the goods she lacks. Token of her need, reputedly desperate, arrived in New York last week: first Spanish gold ($1,500,000 worth) to be shipped to the New World in 19 years...