Word: anshan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand-to-hand fighting last week, Communist troops battered into Anshan, steel capital of Manchuria. Anshan's fall tightened the Red ring about Mukden, but the loss had a deeper significance. What had changed hands was the chief symbol of Manchuria's industrial promise...
...Japanese had been first to exploit Anshan's strategic location in the midst of Manchuria's iron and coal resources. They built furnaces for pig iron and steel, rolling mills, coke ovens and chemical byproducts plants. Up to V-J day Anshan's steel output (nearly 2,000,000 tons) was the biggest on the Asiatic continent...
...Russians removed much of Anshan's movable equipment; the Nanking government was never able to restore production to more than a fraction of what it had been. For China, Anshan had remained just a promise. This week, the promise, like most of Manchuria, belonged to others...
...begun Oct. 1. Pinching from both sides of the Mukden-Changchun railway, it had quickly crunched more than 100 miles of the Government-held corridor. Changchun itself, which the Japanese had planned as the modern stone & steel capital city of Manchuria, was surrounded., The big iron works at Anshan (or what remained after Russian removals following V-J day) were at the edge of the Nationalist line, 55 miles south of Mukden. Communists pressed nearer the great open-pit coal mines at Fushun...
...Russians, he said, took 70% to 80% of Anshan's equipment, including foundry tools, machine shop, steel rolling and milling machines, chemical equipment, trucks, locomotives. The booty was sent by rail to Dairen and to Russian-occupied Korea, for shipment to Russia...