Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weapon, vitalizing now what must be considered a future base of operations. After the war let's recover our gold from the Japs with compound interest. If air transportation is unavailable, one pack train of gold through Tibet will run the scheme for a year. . . . The possible interest on the investment far exceeds that being obtained in Fort Knox vaults...
...firsthand accounts of possibilities, a party of industrialists and engineers left on a survey trip. The Executive Yüan announced an appropriation of $100,000,000 (at the rate of $10,000,000 a year) for irrigation projects in Kansu and its jutting panhandle corridor between Mongolia and Tibet...
...bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another in Tibet (TIME, July 27) which may shorten the new routes for supplies. Both men, dominating huge areas where the Moslems (onequarter of the population in the Northwest) have escaped the remarkable assimilative powers of the Chinese, are friendly with the Chiang government. With both, the Gissimo and his pretty wife presumably...
...walks around with a haunted look. For seven months, over Burma, Siam and Indo-China, he fought in the old A.V.G.; then he joined the Army when most of his buddies went home. Three weeks ago he got lost in a storm, crashed his plane in the mountains near Tibet, escaped three firing squads of hill tribesmen, walked back into China proper...
...rebels nearly conquered a northwest China empire half as big as Europe before being defeated by the "Christian General," Feng Yu-hsiang. Last week another of the Ma clan, once-rambunctious General Ma Puching, peacefully accepted appointment as Commissioner of Reclamation in the dreary swamplands of Chinghai Province near Tibet...