Word: penge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hankow, nearly 600 miles up the muddy Yangtze River, is the Chicago of China, then round-faced youthful General Yeh Peng, Garrison Commander of the Wuhan cities (Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang) is the Chinese Chicago's boss. But General Yeh Peng is a far more admirable character than many of the unofficial lords of Chicago. Only a little while ago he was presented with a silver-plated eagle on a globe for persuading 200 cadets and members of his staff to join the Chinese Y. M. C. A. and contribute $2,000. Only a little while before that...
Gratitude is one of the virtues General Yeh Peng admires most. Dr. Skinner's offices are in the riverfront building of Asiatic Petroleum Co., and to that building went a military procession, including a 50-piece brass band and a car bearing officers of General Yeh Peng's staff. Attached to the hood of the car was a white banner five feet wide, blazoned with characters big as a man's head that every literate Chinese could read...
...ILLUSTRIOUS DR. ALEXANDER SKINNER THE GRATITUDE OF UNWORTHY GEN. YEH PENG FOR BEING CURED OF PILES IS DEEP SEATED AND ETERNAL...
...British cruiser Capetown lay at anchor, with a private telephone cable running ashore. At retreat, night after night, Chinese ashore had heard the ship's band playing the Capetown's special quickstep, and it was that same march that the Chinese band of grateful General Yeh Peng blared through the corridors of Asiatic Petroleum Co. while his officers, bearing their banner with its strange device, tramped onward...
Under Awakened Magyar Point 20 every wedded couple would be expected to have a minimum of five children. For every child lacking after a statutory number of years, the couples' basic income tax would be upped 50%. Thus a childless couple would pay 350 pengös of income tax for every 100 pengös paid by a husband and wife of the same income with five children...