Word: orienteers
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...Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later...
After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...
Slender, bushy-haired William Montgomery McGovern, 40, Northwestern's famed professor of political science, had brought back from the Orient the research to complete a book, The Empires of Central Asia, on which he has been working seven years and whose first volume will be published in April. He was also primed with new learning for his courses on Asia...
...foremost regardless of citizenship under another flag, 3 Germany would soon begin buying only from fascist nations, 4 all fascist nations must prepare for the eventual war against democracy, 5 state funds would be donated to the Rebel cause in Spain and to the cause of Japan in the Orient...
...Panay incident was a dramatic demonstration of that feature of the Japanese constitution under which the army and navy (1 are pledged to conquer the Orient for Japan, 2 must obey to the letter the orders of the civilian premier, 3 need pay no attention to orders from either the premier or the Emperor, 4 are responsible only to the Emperor and virtually independent of the civilian Government, 5 are responsible only to commanders in the field...