Word: bangkok
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken up other trades, supplied them with the raw silk and dyes to turn out finished products on their crude home looms. The silks became so popular with the diplomatic colony and tourists (many of whom ask for "Jim Thompson's place" as soon as they arrive in Bangkok) that Thompson quickly expanded, in 1950 formed his own company with $12,000 capital. Though he is its biggest stockholder, he took pains to make the company a Thai enterprise, accepted only four Americans among his 36 stockholders. His company was soon paying healthy dividends, and Thompson bought two mulberry...
...Ewha Women's University with the emotion-charged Negro spiritual, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, sang Home, Sweet Home with homesick U.S. 24th Infantry Division troops on Korea's front lines, explained Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to schoolchildren in Bangkok, told schoolboys in Malaya: "I might bring to your attention that hate and fear are two things with which babies are not born." There were many, but not too many, songs-Schubert's Serenade in Manila, Mon Coeur S'ouvre a Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah in Bombay, Schubert...
...story is set in the jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named
...returned $600," added Manabe, a leader of the Liberal Democratic Party's Public Morals and Health Committee. "The remainder I spent investigating prostitution in foreign countries at first hand." On a globe-girdling trip to the Inter-Parliamentary Union conference in Bangkok, Manabe stopped in Honolulu, Los Angeles, Washington, New York and London. "I just asked taxi drivers to take me to brothels," he said...
Often enough the importer does not bother to import the radios-he has them intercepted in Bangkok and sold at still higher profits. Sometimes the radios really reach Laos (marked with the universally recognized symbol of clasped hands in front of a U.S. flag). But before Laos' primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that...