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Word: hong (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge of the Scotch Highlanders, kilts aflutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN-CHINA: Minister Mobbed | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Official Chinese name for Equitable Eastern Banking Corp., Chase's big unit, is "Dah Tins Ning Hong," or "The Big Silver Bank Known Around the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Markets | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

...Beanlands, suddenly dowered by widowhood with money and a chance to gesture, thought it would be romantic to make a non-stop flight from England to Hong-Kong. Adventurer Wilmot Shap, eyeing her fortune, encouraged her, went along as navigator, hoped the trip would end in a wedding. Pilot Jimmy Wreaks, scarred and one-eyed from crashes, went because he was paid to fly the ship, thought they had a good chance of coming through. But they did not. Somewhere over Eastern Turkestan oil began to spray back from the engine; Jimmy had to make a forced landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men & Insects | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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