Word: pedicab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Across the Bund, down pedicab-jammed Tai Ping Road, Canton's shops and sidewalk stands bulged with everything from leather goods to solid gold rings and brooches. The jewelry, generally regarded as the only remaining safe investment in an inflation area that rivals panicky Shanghai, was selling briskly...
Smashing up nightclubs is a fairly common occurrence in Shanghai. There are plenty of incidents: four sailors walking into a Hong Kong shop, grabbing seven bottles of vodka and walking out; a G.I. slugging a pedicab driver because he rang his bell behind him; G.I.s driving their Army vehicle through the window of a bar because they thought they had been gypped...
...Matter of Sardines. For everybody, money is one of the worst problems. You have to carry bales of currency; even little boys and beggars carry wads of bank notes in their hands. The papers tell of an elderly gentleman who died of shock after leaving $40 million in a pedicab. I sympathized until I figured out that it was about 133 U.S. dollars...