Word: opium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...throughout the world. Its industry boomed in the 1920's parallel with the U. S. building boom. The producing area for the Hankow supply is up the Yangtze River beyond the famed gorges in Szechwan Province next to Tibet. The big city in the area is Wanhsien. Opium and rice are the district's two other products. The nuts are gathered by coolie labor and the oil extracted in crude wooden presses made of hollowed logs. It is carried to Hankow in paper containers holding 30-gal. hooped with bamboo. It is purified in Hankow, barged to Shanghai...
...most interesting volume on show is DeQuincy's "Confessions of an English Opium Eater", with lithographs by Zenya Gray which catch the atmosphere of the book extremely well. Other volumes represented are Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", grotesquely illustrated by Alexander King; "The Travels of Baron Munchausen", combined with illustrations by John Held; "Jaunts and Jollities by Mr. John Jorrick's", produced by the Merrymount Press; and De La Monte's "Undine" with woodcuts by Allen Lewis...
...Alan Gray, former organist of Trinity College, Cambridge and a composer of note, discovered with horror last week that he had rented the local Y. M. C. A. hall to exhibitors of Soviet posters who were displaying Lenin's famed slogan "Religion is opium for the people...
...heroine of the contemporary order, a "coaster" (poule de luxe) of the Chinese shoreline. The other characters are a group of the ill-assorted personages customarily assembled for "one location" stories-a sour-tongued missionary, an old lady with a lapdog, a U. S. gambler, a German opium dealer who seems to suffer from chilblains, an oriental trollop, a half-breed Chinese named Henry Chang, a British Army surgeon with an Addisonian turn of speech. In the up-to-date habit of Transatlantic, Union Depot and Grand Hotel, they are all inhabiting a train of luxurious Pullmans bound from Peiping...
...Japanese goods now general throughout China, and into buying Japanese goods. The big businessmen of Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe were under the strange but powerful impression last week that by employing Might in its crudest form the Japanese Empire can sell to China. After all, what was "The Opium War?" Chinese say it was a successful exhibition of Might by the British Empire to sell British opium to Chinese. What Japan wants to sell is Japanese cotton piece goods, Manchurian soya beans and such. Tokyo knew last week that Japan produces no opium, that the British Empire (India) still exports...