Word: asia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South China areas ravished or neglected by the Japanese invader. In the hour of victory, starving people in such Fukien province ports as Amoy lay down to die in coffins waiting for them in the streets. But now overseas Chinese are again sending money from the Philippines and Southeast Asia to rehabilitate the coastal trade, and on the Chinese New Year nearly every Amoy citizen boasted the traditional (but in recent years unobtainable) new suit or dress. Inland, such cities as Hengyang and Changsha, once 98% destroyed, are 30% rebuilt. Pot-holed Canton streets are being repaired, and are expected...
...speech will be under the auspices of the United Services to China. This organization was under the title of United China Relief during the war, when it was instrumental in sending food, clothes, medical supplies and other relief supplies to the war-stricken millions of Asia. Reorganized recently, it is carrying on with this work as well as a reconstruction program for war-torn areas...
...influenza, typhus, relapsing fever, malaria, typhoid and smallpox was never recorded, but flu alone killed an estimated 16,000,000. After World War II, the pale horse and his rider never really got started. Health authorities think it was partly a matter of luck. But Europe's, and Asia's, amazing escape from pestilence was also partly due to UNRRA. The story of its great work was told last week in a final bulletin by its health division...
Soviet Mysteries. Most tantalizing blank spot on the diggers' map of the world is Soviet Russia. Modern man himself probably developed somewhere in Soviet Asia. Scattered thickly from the Black Sea to Manchuria are fascinating mysteries which the diggers yearn to probe. But the Soviet Government excludes outsiders; Soviet diggers, like learned squirrels, hide their choicest finds from outside scrutiny...
...apparently a big, rich, fortified town with elaborate tombs, industries and catacombs, which probably clung to the edge of the steppes for several thousand years. It may have been a contact point between Western civilization and the savage nomads of Asia. If so, the world's archeologists would like to hear more about it. But Soviet Digger Pavel Shultz will not tell more until his findings have been printed (if they ever are) in a Soviet publication...