Word: changes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bottle" into the crowd. The thermos exploded, and Mamoru Shigemitsu (then Minister to China) got 32 splinters in his leg. A week later, in a hospital bed, he signed the agreement ending that year's Shanghai hostilities, shook the hand of China's Director of Intelligence Samuel Chang, then had his leg amputated...
...second reason he was unhappy was because that same Sammy Chang, for whom Shigemitsu had felt sincere affection, was assassinated in Shanghai three weeks ago by Japanese thugs, presumably of the Army's Special Service Section...
Three days later a slim, elegant little Chinese newsman, Samuel Chang, sat down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director...
...last week, having moved its universities 1,000 to 2,000 miles, beyond reach of Japanese guns, China had virtually completed its great trek. In Chungking, where Nankai University's foresighted Chancellor Chang Poling had started to build several years before the Japanese invasion, were fully equipped, new greystone preparatory and postgraduate schools. At Kunming was great new Southwest Associated University, with 90 buildings. To these and other centres China had moved 77 universities all told. Out of its pre-war total of 108 colleges and universities, it has saved 91, added four new ones...
Director Ernest Schoedsack, who co-produced manhunting King Kong, elephant-hunting Chang, achieved most of this picture's smooth Technicolored deceptions. Some were done by trick camera work and film processing. Some were done by using massive sets with doors 35 feet high, chairs and tables 12 to 15 feet high...