Word: lai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the long-smoldering quarrel between Kuomintang and Communist Governments blew up in a shower of sparks. From the Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Chou En-lai came an ugly cry: "There is danger of civil war." In Chungking, Information Minister Liang Han-chao snapped back: "There is no danger of civil...
...found that no priorities had been violated, no vital labor absorbed. Said Leon Henderson: "The people who are building the track are quite ingenious." Indeed they are. All Garden State's structural materials had been purchased before Pearl Harbor; 60% of the metal was secondhand, the second-hand "Lai-lies" (concrete-filled steel cylinders) used in place of steel columns are unsuitable for scrap; wood was substituted for metal wherever possible; a sprinkler system was rented from a Florida track. Instead of the 1,900 tons of steel originally planned, Boss Mori got along with...
...Chee Lai (Paul Robeson, Liu Liang-Mo and chorus; Keynote). Songs of Free China, in English and Chinese, including Song of the Guerrillas (Go to the rear of the enemy and kick them in the pants}. Although not tuneful to Western ears, the songs are interesting and authentic examples of China's new mass music. China Aid Council (member of United China Relief) gets part of the proceeds...