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Last year, after capturing the Red capi tal of Yenan, Hu must have felt that his job was done. He got married. But last March Hu had fresh cause to thump and howl : wily Communist General Peng Teh-huai had sprung an ambush at Ichuan, killed and captured 20,000 of Hu's best troops (TIME, March 22). Then Peng cut below Yenan, Stonewall Jackson fashion, and, in a forced march of 100 miles, launched his 60,000 troops into the broad South Shensi valleys. He was driving to ward the lush granary of Szechuan Prov ince - never...
...trade-and especially the speculators whom Anderson's boss, President Truman, likes to thump-did not need much study to know what the program meant. When the Chicago market opened next day, May wheat promptly jumped the permissible daily limit of 10? a bushel, with other futures not far behind. The rise in wheat pulled up corn, oats, soybeans and lard. By week's end, profit-taking by traders had reduced some of the gains. But Anderson held out hope for another rise. The Government, he hinted cheerily, might resume wheat-buying fairly soon...
...Revolutionist Getulio Vargas into power, until 1944, when he nimbly jumped from the dictatorial train before it crashed, Aranha has turned his brain and famous smile to practically every important task that Brazilian public life offers. Only the presidency escaped him. For that, in 1951, his feverish admirers now thump...
Lamar ran his gridders through defenses against Yale plays this week and worked out some new strategy to baffle the Eli defenders. Even in dummy drills the Freshmen were blocking hard and the thump of shoulder pad against canvas could almost be heard in Connecticut...
...have any doubt that they are [Communists], then I haven't any mind. I am convinced that these Hollywood Commies are agents of a foreign country. These Communists thump their chests and call themselves liberals, but if you drop their rompers you'll find a hammer & sickle on their rear ends...