Word: tung
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...censorship remained ironclad. Japanese bombing planes thundered menacingly over Peiping. In Tientsin with feverish activity Japanese architects and landscape gardeners started doing over a onetime Imperial residence as if it might soon be occupied by Japan's puppet Emperor Rang Te of Manchukuo, the onetime authentic Emperor Hsuan Tung...
Slash pine for paper, Tung oil for varnishes, soy beans for oils and plastics were all mentioned; but the big new proposed market-which might pull us out of the Depression, as did the automobile in 1920-21-is power alcohol...
...Tung Trees, also an importation from China, bear nuts. About 30,000 U. S. acres, chiefly in Florida, are planted to tung trees. B. F. Williamson of Gainesville, Fla., told the Dearborn meeting that an acre of tung trees produces four times as much oil as an acre of flax, and that tung oil is preferable to linseed oil in paints and varnishes. Half of the linseed oil which the U. S. requires is imported. Merely to replace that imported linseed oil would require 3,000,000 acres devoted to flax, or 750,000 acres of tung groves, calculated...
After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...inexplicable losses in the domestic market, astute politicians hasten to Washington, and, aided by Mr. Hearst, begin to invoke the deity of nationalism against the wicked and cunning Japanese. Yet despite their furor, figures for 1933 demonstrate that the only imports from Japan of any significance are raw silk, tung oil, and fancy crab meat...