Word: tientsin
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...range from lower-quality jade rings to ground deer horns, which are reputed to be an aphrodisiac. For his $100, a U.S. traveler can bring home a six-color jade bracelet at $30, a 17-piece embroidered linen place-mat setting at $25, a 2-ft. by 4-ft. Tientsin carpet at $16, a man's pure silk dressing gown at $10.50, a porcelain coffee set at $6, two pairs of children's brocade pajamas at $4, a cloisonne-ware ashtray at $2.50 and a hand-painted silk scroll at $1.85. Total cost...
...Tientsin to Adano. To Pierson's neo-Georgian-style quadrangle, Hersey will bring a rich and varied experience. Born in Tientsin, the son of Christian missionaries, he spoke Chinese fluently before he knew a word of English. When he was ten, his family returned to the U.S., and Hersey attended Hotchkiss and Yale ('36). After a postgraduate year at Cambridge, he came back to be secretary to Sinclair Lewis, then war correspondent for TIME and LIFE. His third book, A Bell for Adano, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1945 and was followed by the celebrated account...
When digging of the Peking-Tientsin canal reached a point a few blocks away from our school we spent our work days with pick and shovel and bamboo carrying-poles. Later, we went to plant trees as part of a barricade against the fierce winds of North China, helped the people in a nearby village clear their fields of corn stalks, and finally spent a week in a commune, helping farmers dig a reservoir that would double as a fish-breeding pond...
...Long March. All kinds of consumer goods are pathetically scarce and expensive; a new bicycle costs an unskilled city worker half a year's pay. A Japanese newsman in Mukden leaves two used razor blades on the wash basin in his hotel. A few days later, in Tientsin, he receives a small envelope containing the blades. His comment: "There is simply nothing to be discarded in China today." Still, considerable and important progress has been made. Production of fertilizer, oil and farm tools is up. Textile output, which brings in much of Peking's foreign exchange, has been...
...Chinese troop concentrations on the Mongolian frontier. Ulan Bator also complains that Mao & Co. have instituted something of a blockade forcing the Russian satellite to reroute its minimal trade with Japan and other overseas countries through Vladivostok-a journey more than double the length of the old route through Tientsin. The petty recriminations from both sides of the long border could only have provoked sighs of regret from oldtime Communists. Under Joseph Stalin, the ultimate commandment was harshly enforced: "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor...