Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of these was the ancient Silk Road, running 2,000 miles from Sian through Sinkiang (once part of China proper but now almost completely under Soviet dominance) to the Russian centres of Alma Ata and Sergiopol, on Russia's new Turk-Sib railroad. Over this Silk Road, then called the Imperial Highway, some 2,000 years ago camel caravans, loaded with silk, jade and lacquer, plodded their way to Samarkand, where the goods were shipped to Byzantium, Tyre, Rome. Seven centuries ago Marco Polo pushed his way down the Silk Road from the West to reach the court...
...other three routes, none as heavily-used as the Silk Road, are: 1) the 1,800-mile Sian-Urga motor road, once a caravan trail across the limitless sands of the Gobi Desert, 2) the 1,350-mile rail and road route from Kunming down to British Burma, and 3) the newly-built Chinese railroad from Kunming to Laokai, which connects with the French Indo-China railroad. Hundreds of miles of other new roads connecting these main routes to many parts of the new "New China" have also been built...
Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...
...Nebraska City, Ed Roach said he had visited Mrs. Knox after she wrote a matrimonial letter describing herself as "37, unmarried and attractive," was frightened off when she interviewed him in a black silk evening gown amid her antiques...
...State Department first announced its intention of negotiating the British and Canadian pacts last November, buyers began to order from hand to mouth, waiting to see what would happen. With the fog lifted last week, U. S. manufacturers of office equipment, electrical appliances, tractors, oil pumps, leather goods, silk hosiery charted plans to benefit by the most favorable concessions in the pacts. Automobile manufacturers, although disappointed at not getting duty concessions, thought that gains for U. S. farmers might mean an improved domestic market for motors...