Lanchow
Britishnoun
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But at Lanchow itself, with its vital Nationalist air terminus and motor road junctions, the Communists expected stiff resistance.
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He left his sg-year-old son, General Ma Chi-yuan, in command of the defense of Lanchow.
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They are shy, handsome, aboriginal Miaos from the mountains of Kweichow; turbaned Mohammedans from Lanchow, heart of China's northwest frontier; greasy nomads from The Gobi; Lamas from Tibet; Hans; Manchus.
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Government analysts early spotted China's gaseous diffusion plant at Lanchow, the plutonium reactor at Paotow, and the atom-bomb test site at Lop Nor in the Taklamakan wastes of Sinkiang.
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That fall they completed a 216-mile roller coaster across 1,000 bridges and viaducts from Tienshui, terminus of the old main line from the coast, to Lanchow, the heart of the "New Northwest."
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