Word: hankow
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...Hankow posters appeared, proclaiming "Hankow will be Communist by Christmas...
...China is so loosely articulated that it can lose an arm or a leg without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left...
...Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze. They have eight major armies totalling 151,000 well-drilled men, of whom over half are equipped with rifles. Week by week the Communists creep in a constricting ring closer & closer to the former "Chicago of China," stagnating Hankow. Last week they were reported only 17 miles away...
...brokerage business, then in 1907 organized F. H. Bennett Biscuit Co. At the time he had not heard of a tung tree, nor of the rich oil its walnut-like nuts yield. But in 1905 seeds for the first tung tree in the U. S. had been brought from Hankow and planted in the Department of Agriculture's experimental farm at Chico, Calif. In 1907 seeds were also planted in Florida...
China has used tung oil for centuries in her lacquer, to finish paper, to calk ships. The glossy appearance of Chinese junks is given by tung oil, applied raw. China consumes 40% of its tung oil production. Hankow is the biggest tung oil port and the Hankow quotations are read by paint men throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area...