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CHUNGKING -- Outnumbered Chinese troops fought stoutly today against two Japanese forces totalling 28,000 men which sought to drive them westward from Lake Tungting in the middle Yangtze area and street fighting was reported in several small towns and villages...
...effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across Claude Wickard, grubbing about in a bean patch...
...railroads carried, "with few major congestions," one-third more freight than in 1941, with one-quarter less equipment than they had in 1918-when breakdowns were wholesale and the Government had to take over. Normally U.S. railroads move freight east. Last year one-third of the total volume was westward traffic which Western roads, often single-tracked, were never designed to handle. OWI statistics underline the huge new burdens that submarine warfare placed on the rails: in peacetime one tanker used to leave Gulf ports almost every hour, to supply the 17 Eastern States...
...toward the fatal conjunction, a watcher in the U.S. Naval Observatory saw the "ominous and inconceivable" happen-Biela's comet split in two. This lucky break permitted history to crowd into the balance of that amazing year a series .of events (of which the Mexican War and the westward migration are best known) that cause Historian Bernard DeVoto to believe that 1846 was the great divide in U.S. history. He has written this book to prove...
...President James K. Folk's handling of the Mexican and Oregon questions; 2) Zachary Taylor's campaign in northern Mexico; 3) Kearny's campaign in the Southwest; 4) Kearny's and Fremont's campaigns in California; 5) the Mormon colonization of Utah; 6) the westward surge of U.S. farmers and mechanics. The Year of Decision (Book-of-the-Month Club selection for April) also includes one of history's greatest horror stories, the anthropophagous annals of the Donner expedition...