Word: junk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hearing the approaching alarums of a Communist-bandit horde coming fast down the Yuan River, the Misses Granner and Renninger hopped into a small Chinese junk and told the boatman to make haste by sail and oar for the city of Changteh. As the square-bowed, flat-bottomed boat slithered downstream, the army's hubbub crept up behind. The junk was lolloping along 20 miles short of Changteh when it was overhauled and seized by the bandits...
...spinsters, however, crawled into.the junk's hold where they crouched under canvas. Remembering the fate of Missionaries Mr. & Mrs. John C. Stam whom Communists beheaded with a broad sword last month (TIME, Dec. 24), the ladies knew that discovery meant death. A word from the Chinese boatman would do it. The Misses Granner and Renninger crouched below decks for six days, listening, dozing, stretching, thinking about the unclassifiable noises that came from the sacking of the nearby town of Taoyuan. Twice hooves and boots clattered over-head in numbers, for the army had commandeered the junk as part...
...linoleum in the kitchen they got $4,300. In the two basement rooms which Spinster Herle used they found tucked away bank books showing deposits of $37,000. Behind a wall leading to the cellar they found a nest of tobacco tins crammed with $6,225. Buried under plaster, junk, and old furniture in the cellar they found a score of packets containing uncashed checks and bonds worth $7,417. Finally under a pile of ashes, wrapped in newspapers, they happened on a safe-deposit box. In it were 79 passbooks and three mortgages, altogether worth $513,000. Spinster Herle...
Last week, after a bare decade of service, the Minnewaska and Minnetonka, 22,000-ton sister ships of once-famed Atlantic Transport Line, were sold for junk. As ships go, these namesakes of a pair of pre-War liners were not old. The Mauretania, launched in 1907, and the Olympic, launched in 1911, are still in transatlantic trade. But the Minnetonka and Minnewaska, built for comfort in an age of speed, took eight days from New York to London.* Comparatively exclusive, they carried only 400 one-class passengers in cabins amidships. Biggest cargo ships afloat, they rode rough seas smoothly...
...laboring efficiently among 1,835,030 natives." Thumbing through its 24 smooth, substantial pages, readers see rotogravures of the Pope in a procession, a Chinese moppet learning the rosary, a Japanese babe on an old man's back, Indian nuns and Chinese priests, a pagan temple, a Chinese junk, a U. S. pickaninny. Of all the well-chosen, well-reproduced photographs, the one most likely to cause pause is captioned: "Taxi? Here is the Mongolian version of the taxicab, with its toothless and carefree Jehu. Outer Mongolia presents many problems. . . . But its missioners watch and wait patiently- a policy...