Word: szechwan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Among Cheng Hsueh Hsi's leaders were General Chang Chun, 60, governor of Szechwan, once known as the Gissimo's "one-man brain trust," and Dr. Wu Ting-chang, 56, banker, expublisher of the influential Ta Rung Pao, and governor of Kweichow. The appointment of T. V. Soong as President of the Executive Yuan or the inclusion of the Political Science Group in the Government would indicate how far Chiang intended to go in liberalizing his regime. Said Ta Kung Pao last week: "Now is the time" for more changes "to increase administrative efficiency...
...Szechwan alone the grain yield would be at least 250,000,000 piculs (600,000,000 bushels), or 40 to 50% above last year. Kansu, Honan, and Shensi had already harvested their biggest wheat crops in 15 years. Yunnan, too, expected a bumper crop. In the great metropolitan collection depots the Government's rat-proof bins bulged with grain piled in wicker baskets twice as high as a man's head. River junks and sampans had to be used for emergency grain storage...
...make good the loss of salt resources in the coastal provinces, the Chungking Government has stepped up production from the ancient salt wells of inland Szechwan. Free China had little iron or steel to spare for this vital industry. Her engineers turned to the ways and the tools of their forebears. They fashioned derricks and drills from lashed timbers. They wove rope from split bamboo. For pipelines, snaking over the land from well to refinery, they used the hollow trunk of the bamboo...
Chungking is 280 miles southwest of the Yangtze gorges. If the capital and its hinterland of Szechwan Province is the goal, strategy should call for complementary Jap drives from north and south...
Stolid, stocky Chang Chun, 55, "the Gissimo's one-man brain trust," is Governor of Szechwan and leader of the top-notch circle of industrial planners known as the Political Science Group. An able administrator, he has done an admirable job since 1940 of breaking Chungking's province to the Government yoke. He should not be confused with Chen Cheng, 43, able young general commanding the central front and representative of the most influential field officers...