Word: hwa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communist bank is directed by Chairman Nan Han-chen, 73, a deceptively benign looking finance specialist who took part in the abortive 1936 kidnaping of Chiang Kai-shek by Shensi-province Reds. Taiwan's bank is headed by ascetic Yu Kuo-hwa, 51, a veteran follower of Chiang who studied at Harvard and the London School of Economics. Taiwan's branches abroad are becoming the bank's vital arm. Last year the Nationalist bank reported earnings of $3,200,000, its biggest profit-and $2,300,000 of that came from overseas operations...
...each chapter, as in Mathematics for the Million, Hogben attaches quizzes for the conscientious reader, who is expected to find English equivalents for endless lists of Latin and Greek words and phrases and to translate from a 1,000-year-old English Gospel ("He dysegath, hwa maeg sinna forgifan buton God ana?"*)-all without any answers from Hogben...