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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave especially patient attention to the training of China's new army, lecturing his Whampoa Academy graduates like a Chinese father. There were good reasons. The Communists were still a constant threat to Nationalist China-and Japanese intentions were perfectly plain to Chiang. But in 1931, when Japan occupied Manchuria, Chiang was cautious. He was still building his Whampoa-trained army. Said he: "We exhort the entire nation to maintain a dignified calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: You Shall Never Yield... | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

THANKS TO TIME FOR NEEDED ANTIDOTE TO RECENT SCARE BOOKS RE FOOD AND PEOPLE. BIOTIC POTENTIAL OF SOILS IS NOT A CONSTANT BUT RATHER A FUNCTION OF ADVANCING SCIENCE APPLIED TO BOTH CROPS AND SOILS . . . PRODUCTIVITY OF U.S. FARM LANDS IS RISING NOT FALLING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Trailing 12 to 6 at the end of three quarters, the Crimson came to life in the final period with a running and passing attack that netted two quick touchdowns. The entire game was played under an almost constant drizzle...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Soccer Team Blasts Brown, 3-12; Freshman Eleven Triumphs, 20-6 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Plenty of Planet. About soil conservation in the rest of the world, U.S. soil men have little conclusive information. They know that many once fertile regions are in terrible shape, but they also know that a constant stream of admiring foreign visitors, from Latin America, India, China, the Near East, has come to learn U.S. methods. Last week even Soviet Russia paid the U.S. an unadmitted compliment. Crying loudly (in five pages of Pravda and five of Izvestia) that heedless and greedy capitalism cannot protect its soil, the Russians announced a conservation program (hardly started yet) that is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Eat Hearty | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Despite a hectic beginning, Miss Sebring expects to look ten years younger after a term of constant contact with the 74 Whitmanltes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quad Dorm Gets New House Head | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

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