Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wild West. The coastal Chinese- China has always been ruled from her coastal provinces-know more about Western China than George Washington knew about the Wild West-but not much more. In effect, Chinese officials, students and soldiers began a covered wagon trek to their Wild West after it appeared that Japanese troops could not be defeated in the coastal provinces or even at Hankow by those troops which it seemed judicious to use, and perhaps not by any Chinese troops...
Chinese have transferred to cities in their Wild West over 60% of the industrial machinery of Hankow and much besides from other cities, including the equipment of several Chinese arsenals. To industrialize Western China now is a job like that on which Russians have been working for 20 years in Siberia...
Harvard Club of Western Pennsylvania: Webster N. Jones Jr., of Pittsburgh; and Homer S. Musgrave, of Mt. Lehanon, Pittsburgh...
...favorite public relations stunt of big companies is to show customers or the public through their factories. Last May Western Electric Co. held open house in its Hawthorne Works at Chicago primarily for employes and their friends. The employes liked it so much that last week Western Electric held open house in its big Point Breeze plant near Baltimore. During the week 25,000 people, many of them employes seeing other jobs than their own for the first time, many of them local bigwigs, herded through a mile and a half of roped runways, saw spools do a Maypole dance...
...States will have equal strength, eight seats each. A hyphen will probably be inserted into Czechoslovakia, making it "CzechoSlovakia" according to Prague dispatches, but the Ruthenians want the Republic's name changed to "The State of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians." Other proposed names with important backing this week: "Western Slavia"; "Central Slavia"; "Slavia...