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...Japanese drastically shortened lines and weakened garrisons in China, at the cost of much face and the risk of future distress. In the extreme southwest, they burned and evacuated Nanning. and. fighting off harassing Chinese troops, retired from Yunnan and Kwangsi Provinces to Hainan Island, springboard for projected drives westward to the rest of Indo-China, southward at Dutch islands, eastward at Hong Kong. The Chinese claimed that in the eleven months since the Japanese took Nanning, they had lost 74,000 men by sickness and siege. The Japanese claimed that the penetration of nearby Indo-China made further garrisoning...
...book that the "Oregon Trail" might have been, if author Francis Parkman, 1884, "hadn't been a Harvard man," Bernard De Vote '18, editor of the "Easy Chair" of Harpers Magazine, opened the series of Freshman American Civilization Group meetings yesterday, with an informal talk on the American westward movement...
Parkman, De Voto explained, was "Hasty Pudding man," one of Boston's best. He was offended by the rough talk and dress of the pioneers, and stressed these and other picturesque but relatively inconsequential details, but didn't sense the real significance of the tremendous westward migration...
...will be dominant theme. The tremendous growth of there institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...American Airways Corp. has had a U. S. monopoly on intercontinental air transportation. Its huge Sikorskys, Boeings, Martins and Douglases have flashed through skies clear of competition, except for three or four weaker foreign-owned airlines. An aerial trail blazer, Pan Am has nosed southward into South America; westward to Hawaii, China, Australia, New Zealand; eastward to Europe. With few rivals, Pan Am could take its time pathfinding, make sure its explorations would pay. It has made money since 1931, $1,984,000 last year...