Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Chinese completed the great Canton-Hankow Railway, linking South and Middle China-1,095 kilometers of arterial steel. To delay the Japanese advance, China's defenders wrecked much of the precious railroad. They dynamited one or two major bridges, collapsed five tunnels by exploding TNT-laden trains inside them, sent 95% of the line's equipment rolling off into the Kweichow gorges, where it still rusts. The Japanese never fully repaired this damage, never ran a train between Canton and Hankow...
...Eddie Canton and wife Ida turned out to have overpaid their income taxes in 1945, got back the difference: some $100,000. Bing Crosby, whose golf had been suffering, got a checkup at a hospital, was treated for a stiff elbow. Actor George Sanders took fresh note of the way celebrities got mauled and announced that he would never again give his autograph in public. And PRC Pictures announced that it was bringing Rin Tin Tin back in Vita-color...
...Moscow (circa 1925), Li Lisan had been the party's No. 1 Marxist and tactical top dog. Then German Communist Heinz Neumann and Georgian Communist M. Lominadze, Comintern agents and personal pets of Stalin, decided to speed up the Chinese revolution by staging an insurrection in Canton (1927). Li Lisan opposed them...
...coup backfired, as Li Lisan had predicted. The Chinese proletariat did not rise in support of the Canton Soviet. Instead, Chiang Kai-shek's troops quickly mopped up the insurrectionists...
...sons came back, married Swiss girls, toiled thriftily, and went right on preserving the customs of Canton Glarus which they had never seen. So did their sons and daughters. By now, for all practical purposes, New Glarus is completely Americanized. Its people have more automobiles, iceboxes, radios, pianos, lipsticks and nylons than most U.S. farmers. They are deep in politics (many were diehard supporters of Senator Bob La Follette see Political Notes). Their sons and daughters go to U.S. colleges. Even the big, costumed pageant had a U.S. setting: it was held on the high-school football field...