Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Frozen Eggs. Into mighty, meatpacking Armour & Co., there strayed last week the H. J. Keith Co. of Boston, dealers in dried and frozen eggs. Also into the Armour fold came a large interest in Amos Bird Co. of Shanghai, Chinese egg product concern. To become a power in the frozen egg market, Armour & Co. paid...
...three years, Psychiatrist James Lincoln McCartney watched, studied, ministered to the missionary mind. He recognized the presence of a curious mental instability among transplanted Westerners. In the clinics of St. Luke's Hospital, Shanghai, he saw many a case written down as "neurasthenic," "insane," "neurotic." In the Peking Union Medical College, he heard fellow psychiatrists place the blame on food, climate, economic readjustments. But enthusiastic, 30-year-old Dr. McCartney sought a subtler, more basic cause...
Meanwhile, in Shanghai, China, a distinguished mingling of white and yellow folk took place at the opening of the greyhound racetrack at Luna Park. Lean Wazir, owned by A. W. Olsen and Y. F. Hung, won the Yangtszepoo Stakes. Col. R. W. Dockrill's Staff Captain took the Luna Park Opening Cup. Misses Margot and Tita Stephen's Merry Sinner took the Luna Park Hurdle Cup. But the dogs of Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon won no races until the second day's Hongkew Hurdles...
...Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago, Manhattan. Finally at the end of 40,000 miles it found him, last week, in New Hartford, Conn...
...last week for Peking and points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head of the Packard Motor Agency of Shanghai. He and his companions plan to hunt bear, elk, antelope; to meet and visit Scientist Roy Chapman Andrews somewhere in the Gobi