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President Li had already picked his new Premier; precise, poker-faced General Ho Ying-chin, formerly Minister of National Defense and chief delegate to the U.N. Military Committee. In Hangchow to pass his 60th birthday, Ho first demurred that he was unworthy of the job, then wired Li his acceptance...
...ANIC (Azienda Nazalonale Idrogena-zione Combustibili), by putting up $6,000,000. It will get a 50% interest in a new company which will modernize and operate two ANIC refineries, with a combined daily capacity of 16,000 barrels, at Leghorn and Bari. Caltex Oil Products Ho., joint subsidiary of the Texas Co. and Standard Oil Co. of California, bought an interest in Italy's Petrolea S.A., subsidiary of FIAT. Caltex will build a $15 million plus, 10,000-daily-barrel refinery in the Po Valley. Like Standard's new Italian reineries, Caltex will process crude from Saudi...
...never lived, and married Yang K'ai-hui, a professor's daughter and an active Communist. Friends celebrated their marriage as an "ideal romance." She bore him two sons, both of whom were educated in Moscow. Yang was executed by Hunan's anti-Communist Governor Ho Chien...
...Intermittently they fought with Nationalists, but they got away each time, with heavy losses. The marchers had started out with a huge train of supplies, but they had to abandon most of it on the way. It is said that Mao Tse-tung, then married to his third wife (Ho Tse-chun, a schoolteacher), abandoned their five children on the way, leaving them in the care of peasants...
...Eastward Ho. San Francisco's 49-year-old American-Hawaiian Steamship Co. will move its headquarters to New York, leave its West Coast business in the hands of Williams, Dimond & Co., a wholly owned subsidiary. The reason, said President Lewis A. Lapham, who had moved to Manhattan six months ago, was that high operating costs had forced the line to consolidate its offices and concentrate on its intercoastal trade, which could be directed as easily from New York...