Word: chen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coaches Mikkola and MacDonald are both dubious concerning the outcome of tomorrow's contests and are apparently pinning their hopes of victory on a few holdovers, Vice, Moriarty for cross-country and Howie Reckis and George Chen for soccer, from last season. Both teams are urgently seeking additional player material...
Growing Pains. As king of the small-town drugstore, he found that the most lucrative end of the drug business was selling cosmetics. He decided it might be even more profitable to make his own. So he bought Chen Yu, big-selling "class" nail lacquers, for $2 million. When Chen Yu grossed $10.7 million in 1944, Ruskin bought or formed nine other cosmetic companies, including three in England. Now he is dickering for eight French companies...
...Shall Consider." Tension mounted, eased, mounted again. Japan's General Okamura accepted Chungking's order, promised to surrender formally this week. Central Government troops moved into Canton, waited on Shanghai's outskirts. The Chinese puppet chief at Nanking, Chen Kung-po, promising to "atone for my sins," transferred allegiance to Chungking, put "1,000,000 soldiers" in the Yangtze valley at Chiang's disposal...
...Ministry routine. Premier Soong could now devote more attention to China's galloping inflation and related problems. But though T. V. had won great administrative power, he still had to buck the political machine run by the Kuomintang's right-wing "CC" clique, led by the brothers Chen Kuo-fu and Chen...
Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...