Word: chiu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China has been combed for plants poisonous to insects by Dr. Shin Foon Chiu, Cornell graduate. One of his finds tested at Cornell by Dr. Roy Hansberry is Millettia pachycarpa, which bears seeds as big as small walnuts. Dr. Hansberry found Millettia to be as effective as rotenone dust, but the plant is not yet grown in quantity...
...people who did not forget were the Chinese, who live on the opposite side of the earth from Western civilization and celebrate upside-down holidays called National Humiliation Days. For ten years their most important National Humiliation Day has been Chiu I Pa. (pronounced Jo Ee Ba, translated Nine-One-Eight, meaning Sept. 18). On Sept. 18, 1931 a strip of Japanese-owned railway north of Mukden was blown up by a person or persons unknown. The Japanese Kwantung Army used the incident as an excuse to seize Manchuria in defiance of the Japanese Empire's treaty obligations...
...recipients are Cecil F. Baxter 1M,; McLemore Bouchelle 1M., Theodore S. Cobbey Jr. 1M., Carmer Hadley 1M., Thomas V. Hedley 1M., George W. Henry 1M., Harry F. Hinckley Jr. 1M., Francis R. Lane 1M., William F. Pollock 1M., William Ridder 1M., Israel H. Scheinberg 1M., Daniel Sciarra 1M., and Chiu-an Wang...