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Lieut. Mitchell, after a year on the Shanghai-Peiping run. was sent inland to develop the Chungking-Chengtu route. Diary notes, written on back of weather reports, describe a primitive area where transportation has jumped from sedan chairs and wheelbarrows to airplanes. His passengers were Chinese merchants and military men, women going for operations, an American explorer aiming toward Tibetan Mountains, a German doctor, a U. S. Congressman hunter, a reclamation engineer, a woman archeologist, a Chinese envoy of British government carrying 110 Ib. of silver to Lhasa...
...which was ruined by oil derricks when the Oklahoma City field was discovered in 1928. In fact a law forbade oil drilling in that section. Yet one morning last fortnight Governor Marland was awakened by the monotonous tarnp-tamp-tamp of drills sinking a test well in an unprotected area just across the street from his Mansion...
...companies had the process, but very little nickel; Canada had plenty of nickel but no process. In 1902 Charles Schwab, now Bethlehem Steel's board chairman, helped to promote a merger of the U. S. and Canadian companies. In 1929 the major competitive mine in the Sudbury area was absorbed, and International Nickel reached its present form...
...obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
...church folk of Oakland. Los Angeles and 88 other cities on Toyohiko Kagawa's itinerary were in a frenzy of alarmed excitement. As the result of heavy weather the Chichibu Maru with Dr. Kagawa aboard was half a day late reaching San Francisco. Churchmen of the San Francisco area gathered at a large dinner in Oakland, heard speeches and telegrams greeting the guest of honor who was not there. Next morning when the steamship was finally berthed. Dr. Kagawa did not walk down the gangplank and a frantic churchman telegraphed Secretary of Labor Perkins: "EARNESTLY IMPLORE YOU TELEPHONE ANGEL...