Word: lanchow
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...Machin Mountains of West China. When peripatetic Pen-Manufacturer Milton Reynolds went looking for such a peak (TIME, April 12), he ran into trouble with the Chinese government, failed to get anywhere or prove anything. Last week, another expedition quietly took off from a hard-packed loess runway at Lanchow to make the first recorded flight directly over the Amne Machins...
...Lanchow, China, where Henry Agard Wallace had distributed some honeydew seeds in 1944, appeared a new (to China) type of melon. The Chinese gratefully named it the Hua Lahse...
...obstinate, primitive, multimillioned man power that is performing this heroic transformation is Kukan's theme. These are people that most U.S. cinemaddicts have never seen or known. They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus...
Threatened with the loss of the Burma Road, Chungking talked of leaning more heavily on the long-way-round supply line that helped greatly when Britain closed the Burma Road last year-the 3,100-mile rail and caravan route from Vladivostok to Chita and Lanchow. But last week Soviet Russia and Japan sat down to negotiate a trade treaty-which might lead to the long-prophesied non-aggression pact and the closing of Vladivostok to supplies for China...
Japan has just about given up the idea of taking Chungking. Her objectives, all of which she may be able to get, are: 1) Sian, main link between North China and Chungking; 2) Lanchow, key to Rus sian aid to China; 3) a complete cut-through in the Southwest...