Word: manchuria
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...example, that two National Guard divisions, the 40th and the 45th, embarked last week for Japan-the first Guard divisions to be sent overseas. They were being rushed off before they had finished their training. The public was also aware, but only vaguely, of big Russian concentrations in Manchuria and on Sakhalin island: a Russian assault on Japan might cut off the troops in Korea and touch off World War III. But these and similar grave possibilities, so real to the Pentagon, gave Americans no acute sense of clear and present danger...
...China's press glowed last week (as it did almost every week) with reports of a booming industrial economy. Rubber output in 1950, for example, was up 13.5%. In Manchuria, the supply of consumer goods had risen 126%. And so on, in invariably mounting production percentages, but with no basic output figures...
...their occupation of Manchuria during late 1945 and early 1946, the Russians took from China about $2 billion worth of Japanese-built heavy industrial equipment-rolling mills, hearth furnaces, synthetic gasoline plants, steel plants, etc. Last January, Peking announced that the Russians had begun to replace some of the machinery. At about the same time, a 1951 production target rate was announced; it will probably bring the Manchurian output to about 50% of the rate during the Japanese occupation...
...believed," said the Church Board, "that all, except a few prisoners possibly still alive in Manchuria, are dead...
...enemy's reaction seemed ominously familiar. The Chinese were again on the march from Manchuria with sizable reinforcements...