U S Engineers to Help China Build Pocket Industries
Hollywood figure John Garfield says American engineers will volunteer to aid China by creating small, mobile factories and repair hubs along the Burma road to disrupt Japanese bombing. The effort, tied to United China Relief, aims to fund and deploy midget plants and loaned equipment to boost defense and civilian supply.
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China
Orient
John Garfield
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Colony Group
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National United China Relief Committee
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Burma Road
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H. H. Kung
Chungking
Army officers drop Hello from battlefield calls
Washington reports new War Department order to streamline Army telephone practice. Officers must personally place calls and give name and grade on connection. Clerks should identify offices when answering and avoid the word Hello to save time.
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Army
New England
War Department
Paved Mayan Highways Revealed Before Columbus
A long lost Central American civilization, predating Columbus, reached a high level of advancement in the Western hemisphere. Modern archaeology uncovers Mayan cities like Chichen Itza and Mayapan with palaces, temples, reservoirs, and paved roads. Deciphered inscriptions offer a written record of this great Maya culture centered in Yucatan, surpassing the Aztec.
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Mexico
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Mayapan
Yucaten
Cortez
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Brazil Links Ports With Inland Cities By Rail
Brazil moves to connect coastal ports with interior cities by rail and road as defense and economic plans accelerate. President Getulio Vargas nationalizes railways, expands networks, builds bridges and tunnels, and seeks U S funding to extend lines from Santos to Arica and to bolster Pan American defense.
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National Department of Railways
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Arica
Chile
Argentine
Andes
Ranger Post Office Closes As Sheep Wagon Replaces It
The Ranger post office in North Dakota, established in 1912, will be discontinued this summer as a sheep wagon serves six local families. In a quirky tale natives recall a traveling inspector once felt a tremor from a pig scratching a wheel, a moment captured by the Bowman County Pioneer.
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Little Missouri River
Badlands
North Dakota
Thuy
Bowman County
Rasnger
West
Petons
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