Word: macao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to fly too. By December 1934, when his Martin 1305, the first clippers, were ready, the British were not. Trippe.called in his staff and said: "We'll fly the Pacific instead." When the balky British refused him entry into Hong Kong, Trippe sent his planes to nearby Macao. Hong Kong merchants raised such a howl that the British backed down and let Trippe...
...Macao teahouse, Wong Yu, a babyfaced, 24-year-old farmer and a few of his friends decided to sell their rice paddies and take up piracy. They had $3,000 for expenses, and one of them, Mexican-born Chiu Tok, had learned to fly planes in Manila. Last week, Wong Yu confessed that they had committed the first recorded act of air piracy...
Their quarry was a Catalina flying boat of Cathay Pacific Airways which made a regular run between Portuguese Macao and British Hong Kong...
...boarded the plane, the fishing junks found only one survivor-baby-faced Wong, who had managed to jump from a rear emergency exit. With a fractured leg, he was brought into a Macao hospital, where he confessed...
...Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...