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...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
Saturnalia. Mack's party for Doc was premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia...
...away, but repeated Japanese bombing raids caused little damage. Here at least U. S. observers credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes. Said Lieutenant Wong: ''American-made pursuit planes can easily...
Petticoat Fever (by Mark Reed; Alfred de Liagre Jr. & Richard Aldrich, producers) starts its merry nonsense when a rising curtain discloses handsome silver-voiced Dennis King (Richard of Bordeaux) lying on a couch in a Labrador radio station talking to his Eskimo handyman (Chinese Peter Goo Chong). Actor King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house...
...that a Chinese named Jose Chong was robbed and murdered in Sinaloa State by Defendants Teodoro Romero and Paolo Cavada. Convicted, they have been fighting their case through higher and higher courts ever since, on the contention that a Chinaman is not a man in the true Mexican sense...