Word: offing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs of Maturity. Protected by the 100-mile-wide Strait of Formosa, separating them from the Communists on the mainland, the Nationalists seem to have a good chance of successfully defending their island redoubt against an assault-providing Formosa's native population does not rise against them. While General...
Gradually, the reforms born of Nationalist China's last desperate stand were showing signs of maturity. From Formosa's verdant plains and lushly terraced mountains, farmers had reaped their biggest harvest since the war. Lightning raids by government police were keeping currency black-marketeers in check.
Formosa's modern, Japanese-built power plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are...
Intelligent Formosans still fear that China's badly shaken Nationalist leaders may fail or collapse; they nevertheless see a chance of fairly sound government for Formosa in the months ahead.