Word: manchurian
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...Countries money. They take that money and buy Czechoslovakian coal . . . Now there is no reason why [Japan] shouldn't get [coal] from the U.S. except that we don't have the aptitude to furnish the coal, so we give her money and she buys Manchurian coal from the Russians. Our mines are idle, our railroads don't haul the coal, our businessmen in the mining communities don't have the trade, and the Treasury Department doesn't have the taxes...
...12th ROK division." Back from the front line he pulled his nine battalions; fresh from his 45 training schools came officers and NCOs. A month later, the Bootleg Division was on a 150-mile march to the front, under Brigadier General Yoon Chun Keun, 41, graduate of the Manchurian army academy, who was a regimental commander sitting on the 38th parallel the day the North Koreans opened...
...scant 40 miles from Soviet Siberia, carrier planes from the Princeton and Bon Homme Richard twice bombed Hoeryong, a major supply center and port of entry from Manchuria to Korea. On the Yalu River, three dozen B-29s blasted the Suiho power plants, 1,000 yards from the Manchurian border, where the Reds were repairing damage caused in earlier raids. This is the first time that the big bombers have struck so close to Manchuria. Last June, when light bombers blasted the Suiho plants, there was a big fuss in Great Britain. Last week the British were informed...
...reported to be going fairly well). The Peking radio shrilled that the Pyongyang raids were "directed at Paris, London, New York and Moscow-at a new world war." Red China's Foreign Minister Chou En-lai charged that U.N. planes had crossed the Yalu and attacked the great Manchurian air base at Antung (a possible real target in the future...
...great Suiho power project on the south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...