Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago General H. H. Arnold and Britain's Field Marshal Sir John Dill held secret conference with Chungking officials, flew to New Delhi with China's General Ho Ying-chin. Announcing the Chungking conference, the War Department had said: "The fullest possible coordination [of British and U.S. efforts in Asia] will be assured by subsequent conferences between General MacArthur and General Wavell." Last week Washington announced that General Walter Krueger had arrived in Australia to take command of a newly activated Sixth Army. But the only practical route to China is through Burma. There Wavell...
...Ying-chin (Minister of War) : hoe ying...
...Ying-Chin, 54, runs the Army. He joined Sun Yat-sen and Chiang in Canton as the nationalist revolution broke out, led one of the three armies in Chiang's campaign against the northern warlords in 1926. He has been Chief of Staff ever since. Ferociously antiCommunist, with several pet hates in his own Army, he holds all the strings and politically fears nothing. He works closely with Dr. H. H. Kung, 62, who controls Civil Administration. Brother-in-law of the Gissimo, "Daddy" Kung has for many years controlled Government finances, and is a great believer in printed...
...years of high school) for enlisted women, from 20 to 50 (with a minimum of two years of college, two years' business experience) for officer candidates. Besides important military work, she can promise them a snappy uniform-forest green blouse and skirt, a snappy cap with a scarlet chin strap, a scarlet muffler for accent on the Marines' traditional color. Wives of Marines are barred. Marriage to a Marine after induction is also forbidden, on pain of being dropped from the Corps. But marriage to Army, Navy or Coast Guard...
...Taylor started the light flashing in the second when he batted in a rebound set up by the Everts-Harding corporation. Then Princeton's Mr. Northrap, apparently desirous of emulating Pennsylvania's immortal Gallagher, left the ice for the first time, for checking Tooker Harding rather violently on the chin. While he was out Everts accounted for his second goal of the evening...