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According to the stipulations of the AVC grant, made in memory of the late Brigadier General Evans Carlson, the scholarship recipients must return to the Orient to work for the "regeneration of Asia...
...second floor, the famed Treasure, Ivory, Porcelain and Lotus rooms, which had ranked with the Cliff House and Chinatown as S&iA Francisco tourist attractions, were ruthlessly torn out. Gump's was spending $150,000 to streamline one of the Occident's richest treasure houses of the Orient...
...Education. Tilled by the Underwoods and their colleagues, Korea became one of the fastest-growing missionary fields in the Orient. Today 600,000 Koreans are Christians, and still more are educated. When the missionaries came, Korea was almost completely illiterate; today the literacy rate is about 60%. Patriarch Underwood founded Chosen Christian College in Seoul. Later it was headed by son Horace, who worked in Korea for 32 years before he found time to be ordained in the Presbyterian ministry. Ordained with him (TIME, March 13, 1944) were his twin sons, John (now in Korea) and James...
...people to whom they have dedicated their lives. In 1900, hundreds of Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries were killed by the fanatically nationalist Boxers of China; as a result the influence of Christianity became more pervasive than it had ever been in the land of Confucius. Throughout the Orient in the past ten years, death has come to many missionaries as it came last week to Missionary Underwood...
...piled up experience on the short Caribbean hops, their boss, with vast energy, got ready to send them across the oceans. He worked with planemakers to turn out the flying boats he needed, sent Charles A. Lindbergh, a consultant to Pan Am, on Great Circle survey flights to the Orient. Trippe's agents roamed south, east and west lining up the exclusive landing franchises that paved the way for mail contracts. In island chains and jungles, his crews hacked out airports, strung together radio and weather networks. The better to feed his mushrooming lines, he formed a brood...