Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ornamental pheasants, which bear a resemblance to their gamebird cousins, are native to most of Asia and parts of the East Indies. Chief export centres are Singapore and Calcutta. Prices range from $10 or $15 per pair for common Goldens or Lady Amhersts to $250 for a pair of rare, shimmering blue-green-gold-copper-crimson Impeyans. Except for a few jungle varieties, the birds are hardy, need nothing in the way of quarters but a brush pile and windbreak...
...Eastern Asia, ten years of butchering Communists and belaboring local satraps into submission were climaxed in 1936 by Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek when his China, for the first time, stopped yielding to Japan's more impossible demands and adopted a policy which could be called "strong" (TIME, Nov. 9). Premier Chiang might well have been Man of the Year had he not, at the zenith of his prestige, been suddenly kidnapped...
...their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently overpowered with the killing of 46 of his guards; lost his false teeth in the process; insisted upon reading the Bible during most of his 13 days' captivity at the hands of a "onetime dope fiend," Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang; and then should suddenly have returned by air to Nanking...
...Christian faith (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Last week Mme Chiang, her brother T. V. Soong, who is the financial kingpin of China, and her brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung, who took on the functions of Premier in China's awful emergency, held the destiny of Eastern Asia in their hands. One false move, they knew, might alter the course of world history to China's disadvantage, and yet what moves could they make...
...Alumni Monthly, an article called Doctors, Insects and Air Routes explained a new harbor hygiene against inbound contagion. To halt immigration of any more such pests as the corn-borer, Japanese beetle or red scale, the U. S. Public Health Service insists that all planes from South America or Asia must be sprayed. Pan American Airways conscientiously sprays its Pacific Clippers with a pyrethrum extract at each stop. Aircraft from Canada and Europe, where pests and diseases are rarer than in the plague-laden Orient, are merely inspected...