Word: cn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven hundred howling university students swarmed through Nanking Government offices last week. They wanted the monthly food subsidy for students (now $48,000 CN, or about two black-market U.S. dollars) doubled to meet still-rising inflation. When officials said "No chance," they shouted back coarsely: "Where has the money gone? How much do you spend to eat?" They marched into a Government mess hall, ate the lunches laid out for the Cabinet and staff, called for more...
...teachers get CN $185,000 per month (about $15), so we are hardly able to live. ... I am unwilling to part from the Review, and I hope ... I may soon see it again. When? . . . Only when the terrible inflation stops, and there is an end to this pitiless civil war. Be this true...
...official Communist reason: "It would destroy the lives and property of several million people" living in the path of the river's projected diversion. The Reds charged that resettlement of these millions had been delayed by the Nationalists' failure to make good a promised $15 billion CN ($4.5 million U.S.) relief payment to local Communist authorities...
...when Victor was freed (on 20 million CN dollars bail, or U.S. $6,000), he gave little credit to the prayers of his own followers or of John's. The Soviet news agency Tass, jubilantly reporting the Archbishop's "liberation" and a service celebrating it, said Victor told "thousands of believers": "Behind us like a cliff stands Soviet power...
...Cn. SP. Q.) ALBERT A. GOLDBERG Norfolk...