Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...backwash of postwar epidemics spread across China, carried by 60,000,000 louse-ridden refugees. Two months ahead of the virulent summer season, a cholera epidemic broke in Canton. Only cool weather prevented a full-scale epidemic in Hankow. Bubonic plague broke out in Foochow, and in north China was apparently moving on Peiping and Tientsin. Two planes carrying UNRRA medical supplies flew to Tientsin to meet the threat...
First Rubber. The first shipment of crude rubber to the U.S. from the Far East since 1942 arrived in New York. The Canton Victory brought in 8,100 tons. Another 275,000 to 350,000 tons of natural rubber are expected to reach the U.S. this year...
...messages showed, the Jap Embassy received instructions on how to destroy codes and other confidential material. On Dec. 2, Washington intercepted a message from Canton to Tokyo: "If hostilities are to begin, we here are all prepared...
...Anything can happen if only peace exists - it will be possible to ride a railway train from Canton to the Amur River under a single flag ; possible to irrigate the fields of Hunan with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
...revolutionary people's party, the Kuomintang. Chiang, just back from military training in Moscow, had the job of organizing the Whampoa Military Academy, the nucleus of China's new nationalist army. Mao and Chou were his comrades and the army's political commissars. From Canton the three men marched together on the famed Northern Expedition (1926-27), which gave republican China its first taste of unity. They split when Chiang broke with the Kuomintang's Communist wing and its Russian boss, shrewd Michael Borodin...