Word: hankow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Periodically, in the tough years of war since that accident, Madame has felt at the end of her rope. She has usually blamed the way the chauffeur drove that car, but she should have blamed the way she drove herself. As the Government moved from Nanking to Hankow and from Hankow to Chungking, as the Generalissimo, with Madame at his side, moved from mere Generalissimo to become China's leader and symbol, she worked harder & harder...
...Rising Sun came up over the Burma Road, most Americans visualized an eclipse of China's war effort. The main reason why his country's star continued to rise in spite of the stoppage of the flow of supplies, Pu explains, is that the Chinese Industrial Cooperative, inaugurated in Hankow in 1933 with a government grant of $5,000,000, served the three-fold purpose of maintaining army morale, stimulating civilian morale among millions of harassed refugees from occupied Chins, and mobilizing manpower, capital, and natural resources...
From the 20,000-sq.-mile blighted area, refugees are streaming in hundreds of thousands along two main routes: the Lunghai railway and the trail of the old Peking-Hankow railway. The Government has placed a free train daily for refugee disposal along the Lunghai railway, which is carrying out 1,500 people every 24 hours. But the jammed cars, stuffed with clinging, clambering people, are evacuating only a portion of the stricken hordes. Four or five thousand people daily are setting out on the westward march along the line...
...China has built and sold more than $30,000,000 worth of planes and repair services to China, has built and operated three different plants as the Japanese bombed them out. Profit to Pawley: up to $1,000,000 a year. First Pawley was at Shanghai; then at Hankow up the Yangtze (where he made 78 bombers and repaired 90 fighters); finally at Loi Wing just over the border from Burma. The Japs caught up with his $1,000,000 Loi Wing factory, just after he had trucked most of its machinery and equipment over the Indian border...
That was not all. Never resting, within one short day Chennault's men flew to the port of Canton (see col. 1), where the Jap had entrenched himself along the Pearl River; attacked the Japanese base at Hankow; pounded Jap-held points at Nanchang, Sienning and Yochow on the Canton-Hankow railway...