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Back in 1931, in the Tien Shan Mountains, a young Soviet scientist discovered a dandelion-like weed whose roots yielded a gummy juice suitable for making rubber.* Russia promoted the lowly kok-sagyz to the dignity of a cultivated crop, by 1939 her farmers had planted 62,000 acres...
...centers of population and the vigorous pressure of the outland. Beneath Sinkiang's sands and mountains lie raw mineral resources which may match even Chinese optimism. The Russians have plotted a chain of oil deposits stretching almost a thousand miles, from the Pamirs to north of the Tien Shan (mountains...
...christened Chung Cheng and Chung Shan, the formal names of Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Yatsen...
...Ugly Doctor. In 1902, when Gordon Stifler Seagrave was five years old, he decided to become a medical missionary in the Shan States of Burma. Twenty years later, with Johns Hopkins Medical School behind him, he began. The American Baptist Foreign Mission sent him and his wife "Tiny" to take charge of a 20-bed hospital at Namkham, a village near the Chinese border on the not-yet-built Burma Road...
Today XGOY counts its worldwide fan mail by the thousands of letters. Its program director and prime mover is balding, begoggled U.S.-educated Peng "Mike" Lo-shan. Eleven hours a day he and his polylingual staff tell the world about China's war in 14 languages and dialects. U.S. propagandists, who cannot reach the Japanese people by short wave or Australian medium wave, are much impressed with the Voice of China. Last week Director Peng Lo-shan was en route to the U.S. to discuss more ways of propagandizing...