Word: gobi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Isolated from Eastern China by mountains, marshes and the Gobi Desert are the Chinese of the western district of Sinkiang. To get to the Pacific coast the westerners once went circuitously north by way of Mongolia, then through Manchuria on the Chinese Eastern Railway. The new state of Manchukuo has stopped that, left the westerners threatened by annual famine. Last week the Nanking Government coiled a life line to throw across the deserts, through the mountains...
...might cut southward through the mountains along the Yellow River basin. It might arrow straight west from Nanking to Shensi Province and thence along the overgrown track of the ancient Great Highway to Sinkiang. It might skirt Mongolia, drive monotonously over the wind-marcelled sands of the Gobi, end in the basin of the Tarim River which drains futilely into a marsh. Part of the project was to use the futile Tarim to irrigate arid Sinkiang Province, end its paralyzing famines. To fix where the life line will fall, Nanking last week appointed famed Swedish Explorer Sven Anders Hedin...
...Sidney Morse Colgate was chairman of the new company till his death in 1930, but the old family's influence passed into the background. S. Bayard, son of Sidney, though handicapped by ill health, ably captained Roy Chapman Andrews' motor transport on its first venture into the Gobi Desert. Since his father's death he has managed the family interest in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet. Quiet, clear-headed Bayard Colgate, now only 34, has again obtained control-which the Colgate family has not had since 1928-will try to right his great-grandfather's tilted monument...
Hardbitten as Dr. Andrews is, the Gobi fascinates him. Occasionally it makes him poetize. Writes he toward the end of his narrative: "Wandering over the brick-red sediments all of us eventually arrived at an isolated cone-shaped butte. From its low summit we looked down upon a relief map of rounded hillocks, tiny flat plains and miniature ravines. Almost every inch was covered with animal footprints...
...civil wars which hung over Peking and the route to the Gobi, impeded him more than the extortionists. During one air raid he saved his life only by hiding under a freight car. A shell fragment struck within two inches of his face. He burnt his fingers pulling the red-hot steel from the ground. En route to & from the desert bandits occasionally shot at the diggers. But there were no casualties. The late J. McKenzie Young, who had charge of the motor cars, was once attacked while driving alone. He routed the assailants by guiding his car with...