Word: manchuria
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...coordinated chess game," urges the People's Daily. "To guarantee construction of important projects, we must learn how to give up favorite local projects." The theoretical journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle food shipments in the way they handled iron and steel...
...Peace. The nation that Mao had seized was devastated by twelve years of war and revolution, and it was cursed with a primitive economy-though not so primitive as China's present masters like to pretend. Mao inherited from the Japanese a major coal and steel complex in Manchuria and from the Nationalists considerable light industry as well as the Yumen oilfield-still China's biggest. Under Nationalist rule China's industrial production had risen 80% between 1933 and 1945. By the time Mao appeared, the stage was set for a Chinese industrial revolution comparable to that...
After only four months, the Russo-Japanese war was turning into a Russian disaster. Banzai-shouting Japanese troops were pushing the Russians back in Manchuria; Port Arthur was cut off; and the proud Russian ships in the harbor were immobilized by the prowling warships of Japan's Admiral Togo. At that point in June 1904, Czar Nicholas II decided on a last, desperate gamble to relieve the Russian forces; he ordered Vice Admiral Zinovi Petrovitch Rozhestvensky to sail four brand-new Suvoroff battleships at the head of a task force of some 40 ships from their Baltic home ports...
Basement Rise. Buster started his rise in the complaint department of May's Famous-Barr store in St. Louis during vacations from Dartmouth ('36), spent twp summers traveling through Russia, Manchuria and Japan as a photographic assistant to crack freelance photographer Julien Bryan. He worked his way through Famous-Barr's bargain basement, after a wartime stint as a Navy officer rose to vice president and manager of the company's two St. Louis stores before moving up to president...
Japan has long since lost the markets, the raw materials and the steel mills of Manchuria. And though Japan still thrives on cheap labor, wages have risen. Japanese heavy industry is plagued by high costs because of its dependence on imported raw materials. In the battle for Southeast Asia's markets, the Japanese must still fight the resentments incurred in World War II. The Japanese hope: financial help from...