Word: heng
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent a day as a fish porter-a sight which, according to Radio Peking, "greatly inspired" the populace...
Deviate. In Shanghai, after he had tried to win two girls by posing as a wealthy capitalist, Lo Heng was judged "hopelessly corrupted,'' expelled from the Communist Party...
...interest you and your correspondent, Mr. Robert Neville, to know that Ma Heng-chang, the much-publicized labor hero, the Chinese Stakhanov of "Inside Red China" [TIME, April 9] could not stand the production pace set up by himself and his brigade, and has suffered a complete mental collapse. He became a nervous wreck, and had to be taken to a sanatorium in Manchuria last August. This was unwittingly slipped through a report in a Communist newspaper, the Yangtse Daily, published in Hankow...
Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...