Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming at China's darkest hour, the fall of Mukden, after the government's stubborn attempt to stay in Manchuria, gravely affected public confidence in the regime. Economic pressure forced the government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...rebels approached Sunchon city peacefully; but as soon as they entered the city, police opened fire. Joined by a company of soldiers guarding the city bridge, the rebels fired back. After a short, sharp battle they were in full control. The hundred or so cops who surrendered were lined up against the wall of the police compound and riddled. Then the rebels, joined by part of the citizenry, paraded through the city under North Korea's Communist banner, singing "Ten thousand years to the North Korean People's Republic...
Contrary to popular opinion, the plague has not been stamped out. But Dr. Robert H. Pollitzer, 63, who has spent 27 years fighting plague in China, is quite cheerful about getting it under control, even there. Said he: "There are optimists and pessimists in this plague-fighting business. I am an optimist ... It is not any more a question of looking for effective methods. It's just a case of applying them." Dr. Pollitzer, who works for U.N.'s World Health Organization, last week started work in the University of California's George Williams Hooper Foundation...
With half of the team members sabotaged by dining half-inspired dysentery, the booters had trouble keeping up with the Princetons who tried to make up in running what they lacked in ball control. For about half of the game, however, the Crimson played its controlled short passing game as well as it has all season and scored three earned goals. The rest of the game it relaxed into third defensive play...
...vociferous Soviet propaganda, and the ubiquitous Soviet secret agents, and from them on it is the monotonously familiar performance that Russia has acted out for us time and again in central Europe. As a result, a communistic China of a "different brand" would become a totalitarian state under Kremlin control, with Politburo, Secret Police, Five Year Plans, Sakhanovism...