Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tai's fabulous reputation was crisscrossed with contradictions. Though he shunned public entertainment, he liked to give lavish drinking parties. In Happy Valley, near Chungking, site of his secret headquarters, he toasted visitors with innumerable kam pels. He could down 18 Chinese wine cups filled with brandy in an...
Local time is based on the sun's position in relation to 24 "standard" meridians which lie at intervals of approximately 15° longitude around the earth. Thus when the sun is directly overhead at Greenwich, G.C.T. and local time are both 12 o'clock noon. At the...
Mr. Wu could not help but regard this turned-about state of affairs as most delightful. The U.S. was indeed the promised land-for men. How different, he exclaimed wistfully, were things in China: "In Chungking, boy students running after girl students find it a very hard job indeed. A...
On March 11 after a final conference with Generalissimo Chiang and Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, U.S. commander in the China Theater, the Special Envoy emplaned for the U.S. At the very last moment, he scored another success. Government and Communist negotiators agreed to extend the truce machinery to Manchuria...
Plans & Needs. The Special Envoy reported his views on Chungking and Manchuria to President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. But his prime reason for returning to the U.S. was to get rapid action on credits to China.