Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Japanese radio poured poison into Chungking. Where were the planes, the pilots, the bombs the U.S. had promised China? Why all the painful, handmade preparation of airdromes for U.S. airmen who would never come? Jap bombers would wreck the fields, the Japanese army would capture them, before the Americans...
Day after day U.S. Army Air Forces officers in Chungking heard such Japanese broadcasts, kept their wrath and the biggest news of China's war to themselves. The news was that there actually was a small U.S. air force in China and that the force was growing bit by...
Chungking said: As a successor to the A.V.G. we welcome the regular American Air Force. It, no doubt, will show the same brave mastery of machines in air combat.
Today on the streets of Chungking can be seen people lined up to buy this cloth. Officials claim there will be enough cloth for the army and the general population. Even Government offices are furnishing uniforms to their employes.
China Will Hoard. The commodity scarcity undoubtedly still continues to lead people to hoard. Medicines today give the best chances of profits for smugglers and hoarders. The Government gives air priority from India to medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the...