Word: cantons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Camouflage paint was decreed for all tall buildings in Canton. Merchants were told to ship inflammable goods inland. Industrial machinery and commodities were also being transferred. Plans for dispersal of the city's 1,000,000 population were reported. The families of Red officials were trekking to Kukong, 150 miles up the Canton-Hankow railway...
...Resist America" propaganda and mobilization mounted in clamor and fury. In Nanking a U.S. missionary teacher was publicly humiliated. In Shanghai, U.S. movies were branded as "spiritual poison." In Canton a doctors' rally pledged a boycott of U.S. medicines. Everywhere students were recruited for military service. Peking's Current Affairs Journal instructed the faithful: "Hate the U.S., for she is the deadly enemy of the Chinese people. Despise the U.S., for she is a rotten imperialist nation . . . Look with contempt on the U.S., for she is a paper tiger and can fully be defeated . . ." The Journal added that...
...doctor in the Massachusetts town of Canton was a young man of 29 with a brand-new wife, a brand-new medical degree, a friendly face, and not much more to recommend him. His first patient was the town treasurer, down with a nasty cold. Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce studied the case carefully, administered treatment and presented his bill...
That was in 1905. Since then, Dr. Luce* has treated more colds and other ailments in Canton than he or anybody else can remember. The babies he has delivered run into thousands. Many of them have come back to him to be delivered of their own babies, and several of the second generation have come back to be delivered of the third. The modest fees that Dr. Luce has often failed to collect lie recorded and forgotten in musty ledgers. "The minute young interns start thinking about the money they're going to get in their profession," Dr. Luce...
Because his 45 years of service to his community is typical rather than unique, the American Medical Association convening in Cleveland last week gave Canton's Dr. Dean Sherwood Luce a gold medal and named him "Family Doctor of the Year...