Word: junks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wise Fish. Ever since then, sometimes in fleets of three or four, sometimes in a single junk, sometimes trusting their lives to a flimsy sampan across 30 or 40 miles of open sea, other Chinese fishermen have followed the original 1,600 to Hong Kong. Some were caught on the way and either executed or sent to Red labor camps. For all of the estimated 4,000, the hoped-for joys of freedom proved elusive. Those who had managed to smuggle out their own fishing gear found it antiquated and almost useless in waters where the local fishermen...
...From what he had seen of Red equipment, added Lear, the Russians could probably use some of his flight aids. On their prize Tu-104 jet transport, for example, the auto pilot was "right out of our old B17. You can buy one in any junk market for six dollars." But, said Lear, he was not planning to sell "a single bolt or screw" to the Russians...
...censorship throttled the Evening Post so effectively that it was soon forced to shut down, sell its equipment at junk prices. The auto agencies next went under. But despite heavy taxes, Starr's insurance business prospered, and the land company, Metropolitan Land Co., was allowed to manage its properties...
Unnerved by the river people's fatalistic fortitude and inexplicable joys, the American takes to his bunk with a psychosomatic sort of fever. There, Su-ling, almond-eyed wife of the junk owner, feeds him broths plus the harsh poetic lore of the "Ten-Thousand Mile River." Once well, the engineer excitedly spills hints of his company's plan to harness the river, tame its power, eliminate the backbreaking tasks of the trackers. Su-ling is horrified at the American's impiety in even thinking of tampering with the sacred Great River, and begs him to breathe...
Murder in Effigy. With a perfect damsite in view, the American forgets his promise and tells of his hopes. In Old Pebble's view, the engineer has cursed the junk, and murdered the river in effigy with his plans. And to the American, Old Pebble is an annoying boulder in the path of progress. The two are locked in their petty feud when the river takes an awesome hand in its own destiny, leaving the American chastened and wiser...