Word: kung
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little more confidence." In China he got it fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came out a full-fledged U.P. correspondent...
Chungking fell back to horse & buggy days. High officials began riding rickshas to set a good example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...
...stem China's inflation, and whose Ministry has often been accused of aggravating it, is Minister of Finance Dr. H. H. ("Daddy") Rung. Seldom has even a horse-&-buggy doctor operated under such harassments as the coolie-&-ricksha society of bomb-torn Chungking has imposed on aristocratic Dr. Kung, 75th descendant of Confucius. An active ingredient of the inflation has been lack of confidence in the finances of the Chiang Kai-shek Government. Some of his henchmen have been accused of worse things than incompetency. And so a large measure of the responsibility in turning the U.S. and British...
...Treatment. With 13 billion Chinese dollars' worth of U.S. and British credit to play with, Daddy Kung ought now to be able to operate more successfully on the gangrene of inflation. Dr. Chiang suggested some ways this might be accomplished...
...British troops were slowly pressed by Japanese forces, CNAC established an emergency service from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport in the lee of the Kowloon hills (see cut, p. 18), While bombs and artillery shells rained down on the field, U.S. and Chinese pilots loaded Daddy Kung, Madame Sun, Banker Chen and 272 other passengers into shuttling planes, crossed the Japanese lines, set them down safely 200 miles inland. By the time the airport became too hot, they had rescued the entire staff of the air company and were ready to carry on from new headquarters...