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...trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province to the Government yoke. He should not be confused with Chen Cheng, 43, able young general commanding the central front and representative of the most influential field officers...
...increase in the alcohol yield of grains can be had by using bread molds instead of the conventional malt* to convert starches to sugars, which are then fermented by yeasts. So reported Leland A. Underkofler, Ellis I. Fulmer and Lu Cheng Hao of Iowa State College, who point out that molds instead of malt were used long ago in the unscientific Orient. Grown on wheat bran, the molds are prepared in one-fifth the time required for malt. Their action yields 93 to 96% of the alcohol theoretically obtainable from corn, whereas malt yields only about 85%. Thus "the alcohol...
...Captured General Chen Cheng...
Little Brother. Chen Cheng is certainly a favorite. He is the only one of Chiang Kai-shek's generals whom the Generalissimo addresses by the Chinese diminutive, ti, "little brother." He rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...
...Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key city. He then gave up his comfortable job in Chungking as Chief of the Army's Political Training Department and went to the front, publicly vowing not to return until he had retaken Ichang...