Word: bund
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...private cars costs $1.40 a gallon. An unused 1948 Buick, offered for sale at $500 recently, found no buyers. Casualties are highest among high-class restaurants, bars, cafes, Western-style tailors, fashion shops and department stores. Said a Chinese trader who recently visited Hong Kong: "Between the Bund and the Park Hotel the show windows of all stores -including the big proud ones like Wing On, Sincere, Sun Sun and the Sun-are plastered with posters which shout: 'We Reduce Prices with Pain!', 'Shop Closing Down', 'Prices Falling Below Cost' . . . Swank stores now offer...
...more than a year, a tight little group of U.S. consular aides had lived and worked in the tower-topped Glen Line Building on Shanghai's teeming Bund. One day last month, U.S. Consul General Walter P. McConaughy hauled down a tattered flag, locked the doors of his offices and left. For the first time in over 100 years, no U.S. flag flew over a diplomatic post on the Chinese mainland...
SOMEWHERE AT SEA, May 12 (Delayed)--"Titanic" was the word used by Admiral Cummer von Bund to describe the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon war games run off today. In the midst of battle, her decks awash, her superstructure stove in, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington sank beneath the foam carrying those aboard to a watery bier. "I never thought she'd go down," murmured Able Bodied Seaman Donald Crestfallen...
...special feature of the fashionable gathering will be the presentation of the First Annual Cummerbund Cup, to the "most nattily attired outfielder." Presenting the beautiful piece will be Cummer von Bund, head of the German-American Cummer Bund. A check with Mr. Bund's office late last night revealed that he had not yet fixed upon his very correct costume for the occasion, but it was indicated that he will be "so lovely you could...
...German I. G. Farben ... It was alleged that the Nazis were-and are-his clients . . . that he had looked with favor upon the rape of Czechoslovakia and that he favored the aggressive wars of the Axis. Attempt was made to identify him with the German-American Bund...