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Tiny, wizened statistically-minded Economics Minister Wong Wen-hao has for years kept charts and graphs of the Northwest's natural resources. Armed with Wong's charts and the Chiangs' firsthand accounts of possibilities, a party of industrialists and engineers left on a survey trip. The Executive Yüan announced an appropriation of $100,000,000 (at the rate of $10,000,000 a year) for irrigation projects in Kansu and its jutting panhandle corridor between Mongolia and Tibet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: He Who Has Reason | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Chiang the soldier says very little to his men. He listens to their reports, their suggestions or their fears. Then, with a single grunted word, hao (good) or pu (no), he makes his decision. He is a stern disciplinarian, and keeps his army taut. When he visits the fronts, he blurts words of praise or of withering criticism on the spot, in public hearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: The Incident Becomes a Crisis | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...having the Burma Road cut off, cheered and were happy. They knew that the strange, fanatic, face-lost Japanese would try again, but for a bit they could feel secure. They knew that they had done what the British in Burma had not-they had stopped the invader. "Hao," they said-"good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A Different May | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Isolated, these raids were like guerrilla raids all through China all through the war; but the newspaper readers could not remember when so many raids had come all at once. "Ting hao," they said-"very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A Different May | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...bases in east and south China." Some of the fields lay within 700 miles of Japan. The wonderful thing to the newspaper readers was word that planes of the Chinese air force had gone into the air to fight back; and had even bombed Japanese garrisons. "Hun hun hao," they said-"wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF CHINA: A Different May | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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