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Word: hwang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admit that Mao Tse-tung has indeed succeeded in eliminating inflation, and even famine, if he has already liquidated enough millions of people to achieve that. But floods! Does the dreaded Chairman Mao have the magical power to alter, mind you in three years, the course of the Hwang-ho, the Yangtze, and various other rivers which have been the sole cause of this natural disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1953 | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...Victory? Lee, Hwang, Son and the millions like them, their brothers and their elders, are a staggering problem for the U.N. So far the U.N.'s Civil Assistance Command-meaning, mostly, U.S. Army G-4-has prevented starvation in South Korea. Since war began, the Army has shipped in 100,000 tons of grain, millions of yards of cloth, 3,000 tons of clothing. Soup kitchens, emergency refugee camps, orphanages have been set up in the South. In North Korea, things are worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ALLIES: The Forgotten People | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

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