Word: macao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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River estuary to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao, and before anyone could say "Where's the Dragon Lady?" found themselves heading for Red China in an ancient, twin-engined amphibian PBY, Bush piloting, Travel Agent Sullivan at his side...
...plane," said Bush, "didn't even stop the engines." Almost as soon as Bush's PBY had put down on the strip, he said, a truck appeared and delivered the Chinese boy. Several hours later, Bush, Sullivan and their wide-eyed passenger landed in the water off Macao, and the boy was handed over to a power-operated black Chinese junk that came up alongside the plane...
...high hills visitors can look north across the border to the barren red hills of Communist China; they can spend an evening at the stylized Chinese opera, tramp up and down narrow "ladder" streets and take a 40-mile boat ride down the coast to Portuguese Macao, which will give Americans their best look at China...
Last month, after the Russian fair moved on to a specially built $2,000,000 pavilion in Canton, the Red propagandists decided to go after more skeptical game -the free Chinese in nearby Hong Kong and Macao...
Spies Welcome. Red newspapers in Hong Kong burgeoned with glowing advertisements promising "preferential treatments" in the form of cheap transportation, lodging and meals, and an almost complete relaxation of border restrictions to any Hong Kong or Macao Chinese who wanted to see the show...