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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bordering the "Autonomous Government of North China" hatched last November by the Japanese Army (TIME. Dec. 2). As Japan chipped away at Generalissimo Chiang's China (see map) it became a matter of pressing importance where lay Chiang's absolute line of resistance short of the towering mountain wall of Eastern Tibet...
...selected the province of Szechwan. backed right against the Tibetan highlands and 125 miles from British Burma. Szechwan, biggest province in China proper, has a population (76,000,000) bigger than the white population of the British Empire. It is more or less isolated from Eastern China by mountain ranges and the gorges of the Yangtze River. In its centre forehanded General Chiang has quietly been setting up the biggest military and aviation base in China, 850 miles from his capital of Nanking. Szechwan's one liability is that it is surrounded by great geologic faults, is a favorite...
There were no codes, relief, no N. R. A., And a man was free to fix his pay, Free to loaf, labor or snore, Oh, come ye back, ye days of yore, When the eagle perched on the mountain...
...done it, the Commissioner wanted to know. Diet, exercise and massage, smiled Rose. First she had tried thyroid extract but doctors told her it was dangerous. Last summer she took up tennis, horseback riding, mountain climbing-still without dropping a pound. Finally she went to Manhattan's Dr. Gerald Schuman who put her on the successful diet. It was a hard, quiet campaign. Said her attorney: "She refused an offer of $5,000 to endorse a reducing salt...
...party then started with the sledges and dog teams, crossing the mountain ranges to the Pacific Ocean, and working on the triangulation and map making...