Word: chungkingers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The China National Aviation Corp. has never carried breech blocks for Chungking anti-aircraft guns, or any other cargo which would jeopardize its position as a purely commercial line. This position has the complete support of the Chinese Government.
When his plane came down at Burbank, it landed beside the great Lockheed and Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the...
There remained little question but that Russia would last out the winter, would fight hard next year, would go on resisting somehow from some mountain Chungking. The laggard democracies would have more precious time to gird for the job of beating Hitler. It would be an awesome job, but now...
Russians have had a great reputation for industrial fallibility. They have been dismissed as Orientals, incapable of understanding machines. But one set of Orientals, the Chinese, withdrew in the face of military reverses to China's mountains, and there succeeded in pinning down 1,000,000 Japanese soldiers for...
"There is always the possibility, even the probability, of a direct march on the Burma Road. America's choice between letting Chungking down or keeping Chungking up would be solved automatically, for it could not assist Chiang Kai-shek's party if the sole remaining major avenue of...