Word: northern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Report in the North. Unity in the west had hardly been established before stories of even more drastic unification came out of the Communist area of northern China. They were Communist stories, unconfirmed at week's end by Chiang or anybody else in Chungking. Their substance: while the Generalissimo was negotiating with Communist Mao Tse-tung in Chungking, three of Chiang's armies had attacked Communist forces in Communist-controlled Shansi province, Kwantung, the Yangtze basin, and north of the Yellow River. In some instances, said the Communists, Chiang's troops had invoked the aid of Japanese...
...Newark, a strike by the Retail Clerks International Protective Association, A.F. of L., resulted in the closing of 242 Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout northern New Jersey and Staten Island...
...children's week. All over the northern hemisphere they were going back to school (see EDUCATION). Around the whole world their lives were being shaped in treaties, liberations, new laws, new beginnings...
...French were returning to IndoChina under strange auspices. The Chinese, who dislike European colonization in Asia, were taking over the northern part of the country from the Japs. The British, who used to look upon France as their chief colonial rival, occupied Saigon in the South. The U.S. was helping both British and Chinese occupation forces...
...green. The salt smell of the sea still blew in from every coast. Highways still boasted their gaudy billboards; they ran past barns painted with baking powder ads and signposts cluttered with the weathered, cardboard portraits of political candidates. In the South the cotton was waisthigh. Beneath the northern border the wheatlands were bright with yellow stubble. The Western ranges with their white-faced cattle were sere again with the late summer heat. Sidetracked freight cars still bore the familiar slogans on their red sides: The Route of Phoebe Snow, The Katy, The Southern Serves the South. Leaves were turning...