China Faces New Convulsions From A Century Of Disasters
Special correspondent William L. Ryan surveys two thousand years of calamities in China, tracing a cycle of floods and famines to Maoist upheaval. The piece covers the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the resulting economic distress, with references to Chiang Kai-shek, Chu Teh, Ho Chi Minh, and Khrushchev.
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William L. Ryan
China
Chine
Sharal
Sinman
Aly
Defense
U.S
Ching
Sun Yat-sen
Kung Chang Tang
Chinese Communist Party
Moscow
Communist International
Neuven Than
Ho Chi Minh
North
Vietnam
Mao
Shanghai
Chu Teh
Chu
Communiis
Joseph Stalin
Soviet Party
Manchuria
Chiang Kai-shik
Kuomintang
Chiang
Yenan
Maco
Peitaiho
Communist Party
Wuchang
Nikita
Khrushchev
Jiao
Chambers County Good Rice Land
By 1902 Chambers County was recognized as first class rice land. The Hankomer Stowell Canal Co later Farmers Canal Co first to operate canals in Chambers County. It began digging canals by 1899 and pumped water from Turtle Bay. Eight mules hauled planting, a steam engine threshed, rice sacked in the field, hauled by ox wagon to Needle Point Cedar Bayou, where a rice warehouse stood. Barges reached Cedar Bayou and carried rice to mills at Houston and Galveston.
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Chambers County
Hankomer - Stowell Canal Co
The
Farmers, Canal Co
Turtle Bay
Needle Point
Cedar Bayou
Houston
Galveston
Look Ma No Hands Fitness Starts Young at St Louis YMCA
Children as young as four flex muscles through playful activities at a St. Louis YMCA. They bounce on trampolines vault over horses and race along balancing beams, gaining real exercise without a formal regimen.
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Chambers County Formed From Liberty and Jefferson in 1858
Chambers County was charted on August 2 1858 from Liberty and Jefferson Counties. It lies along Galveston and Trinity Bays, bounded by Jefferson Liberty Harris Bolivar Peninsula and the Trinity and Galveston Bays. Wallisville served as county seat from 1858 to 1909 with a later brick courthouse, a small population and several stores.
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Texas
Galveston
Trinity Bays
Trinity River
Jefferson County
Liberty County
Harris County
Bolivar Peninsula
Galveston County
Trinity
Liberty
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
Mexico
Virginia
Wallisville
Wallis Hill
Stephen F. Austin
Wallace
Wallis
U.S
Frank Wallis
First railroad to touch Chambers County and key towns
The Gulf and Interstate, later part of the Santa Fe system, was the first railroad to reach Chambers County. It entered near the northeast corner, skirted the eastern border to Bolivar Peninsula at High Island. Before state highways, Anahuac was nearly inaccessible by car, and Winnie and Stowell were the only towns connected by the 1896 railroad network.
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Chambers County
Gulf and Interstate
Santa Fe
Bolivar Peninsula
High Island
Anahuac
Winnie
Stowell
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