Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> Chinese reports said that 30,000 Japanese, replete with collapsible boats and other war gear, were massed across the Salween River apparently ready to strike toward Kunming, 230 miles eastward on the route to Chungking.
So last week Justin Brooks Atkinson packed his pipes and tobacco, a few travel necessities and a copy of Hamlet ("for relaxation") total 56 lb.-and hopped off for Chungking. There he will be resident correspondent for the Times.
Just before the A.E.F. took the offensive last week, China's shrewd Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, back in Chungking after more than two years' work in Washington, placed a heavy bet on the U.S. Seated beneath a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Minister Soong declared that the...
Chungking greeted this display of U.S. airpower as the start of a long-awaited air offensive. Such rejoicing was premature. But by simple arithmetic the Japs could figure that if U.S. bombers were within range of Linhsi and Hong Kong, they were within range of most of the Stolen Empire...
As usual salaried people have been the worst sufferers. But wage earners have also had hard times. It was estimated last winter that, against a 40-fold increase in the cost of rice, unskilled Chungking workers had got only a 29-fold wage increase, skilled workers only a 16-fold...