Word: hong
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THOMAS R. NEWSOM Kowloon, Hong Kong...
Today, at least half the remaining 3,000-odd Chinese priests are in prison or are undergoing three daily two-hour "indoctrinations" on the advantages of joining the Patriotic Association. "We are groping in the darkness," wrote one of them in a letter smuggled from Shanghai to Hong Kong. The "tumultuous" Red preaching sessions "are enough to drive one mad," he added. "The director is always present. He pounds the table, shouts, yells and screams at the stalling tactics of the assembled priests. You can't imagine how these rabid talkers force you to think, concede, admit...
...Hong Kong, Chinese Communist raincoats sold last week for 40% less than in Canton. The Japanese admitted that Chinese underselling had "destroyed" Japan's newsprint and grey cotton sheetings exports throughout Southeast Asia, now threatened to undermine Japan's markets in soybean oil, cement, structural steel, window glass. In Jakarta, Indonesians were snapping up Chinese yarn at $390 a bale, $25 cheaper than Japan's yarn. In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented...
Last Angry Man. In Hong Kong, Yu Shui-ming, alias Pee Hai Por ("Leather Shoe Shop"), was asked by a judge to demonstrate how he earned his nickname, pulled off one of his shoes, flung it at the police officer who had arrested him for loitering...
...general manager and chief executive, Cedric O. Turner, 51 (see cut), a onetime accountant who likes to "get to the facts and cut out the waffle." Taking over in 1951. he set out to model his line after U.S. carriers, expanded Qantas service west to London, north to Hong Kong and Japan, laid new routes east to Hawaii...