Word: szechwan
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...governor of China's Szechwan Province is a wise Oriental. His province has the world's only supply of much-sought-after giant pandas. His problem: what he could buy that was one-half so precious as the stuff he had to sell. His answer: scholarships. For two pandas, f.o.b., he demanded two one-year scholarships, complete with tuition and living expenses, for deserving Szechwan students...
...these terms the London Zoo grabbed the 1946 quota of giant pandas (two). Last week the San Diego Zoo was negotiating through the U.S. State Department for the 1947 quota, and looking for a U.S. college to put up the Szechwan boys who came with the deal...
...Solid, sensible General Chang Chun, 58, Governor of Szechwan Province, Government representative in negotiations with the Communists over military unification, and a leader of the influential, progressive Political Science Group...
...seven Chungking patriots, despite the jeers of the Chinese press, organized a "Praying-for-the-Rains Dragon Corps" to save the crops of Szechwan Province. They shouted, beat gongs, organized public prayer, and, shortly, the heavens obliged...
Three generals were charged with the trucemaking: the Central Government's forceful, realistic Chang Chun, Governor of Szechwan Province and a leader of the progressive Political Science Group; the Communists' able, amiable Chou Enlai, veteran revolutionist and leader of Yenan's unity delegation in Chungking; and, sitting as consultant between the two Chinese, the U.S.'s Special Envoy George Cattlett Marshall...