Word: opium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city of glittering vice; the real Shanghai was a powerful economic organism sucking nourishment from the trade of the Yangtze valley. To day both Shanghais are dead-and within the putrefaction of its mist-shrouded cadaver the maggots of destruction worm silently about. Cabarets, with their white slaves, adventurers, opium-runners and hatchetmen, still operate in Shanghai; but ringed about with Japanese bayonets, spies, terrorized by free-firing gunmen, they have lost their glamor. Most efficient of the operating agencies in this Oriental caricature of Hell is the Japanese Special Service Section; under its jurisdiction is notorious No. 76 Jessfield...
...years, beginning with opium and ending with oil, Shanghai was a boom town of quick, fabulous profits and easy spending. The Municipal Council reflected the spirit of the town. From its huge budget it paid huge salaries, bothered little about amenities of health or policing...
Last year Abend was warned by a Japanese friend to cross-examine his servants. Abend asked questions, found that one had been offered a bribe by a Japanese gendarme to put "some papers" in Abend's file. Another had refused $500 to put a box of opium and two loaded revolvers in Abend's car. When Abend complained, the Japanese said: So sorry. "The leader of the plot . . . is being sent back to Japan in chains...
...attitudes that opened the way for Western commerce. In every Chinese change of the past generation-with the exception of the 1926-27 revolution-the share of the missionaries has been large. They led the movements for famine relief and Western agricultural methods, led in the attacks on opium, foot-binding, daughter slaughter, concubinage...
...down dope smuggling so sharply, according to a report from Washington, that prices have soared in the bootleg drug trade. Many addicts are seeking cures; others have taken to paregoric (camphorated tincture of opium...