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Early in 1946, with the Japanese gone, the Chinese Government realistically decided that repair of the railroad was China's No. 1 reconstruction need. To direct the monumental job, it assigned 56-year-old Tu Chung-yuan, a Cornell-trained, driving and determined veteran of China's railways, who has always admired the American "railroad game" (as well as American strawberry shortcake and pie á la mode...
...assist him, Builder Tu called on S. P. Lin (Purdue) and K. T. Fung (Princeton and Harvard). They had virtually no modern machinery, few tools, no new girders to repair bridge spans still lying twisted in river beds. But they made shift with what they had. And in six amazing months, the job was done...
...When sudden spring floods washed out two of the longest temporary bridges north of Changsha last April, Director Tu put on three shifts of laborers, working day & night. The engineers managed to sink heavy loads of log piles, through unprecedentedly high water. Somehow, without modern diving equipment, timber superstructure had to be fastened to piles as much as 30 feet under water. Again the coolies' bitter strength saved the day. Local rivermen dove in, swam down for 80 seconds, drove spikes with hand hammers, a blow or two at each dive, until all were securely in place...
...Torpor. "Thus, by mansweat and makeshift, on schedule in mid-1946, the first through train in eight years made the Canton-Hankow run. By November, Director Tu had three expresses going each week. Now he has one daily leaving both north and south terminals. In half a year passenger and freight (rice, relief goods, tung oil, coal) mileage has doubled. Along the right of way, at every station, aswarm with people on the move, and ashrill with vendors of rice, cabbage, noodles and pig's ears, you can see a region's economic life, however shabby and stunted...
Physics 47b. Special Topics in Theoretical Physics (continued). Half-course (spring term). Lectures, Tu., Th., Sat., at 11. Associate Professor Schwinger...