Word: penge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...504th Year 2nd 5th Moon, 10th Day (July 2. 1895), harassed King Li-Hsi of Chosen (Korea) signed away the mineral rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
Rearmament will eat up a great part of the billion pengös, but Admiral Horthy, too old and shrewd a campaigner to let the world know how much, preferred to emphasize Reconstruction...
First Aces? Not spared the war was Capital Nanking, 170 mi. away, but repeated Japanese bombing raids caused little damage. Here at least U. S. observers credited China with definite air superiority, and General Mao Peng-tsou, field commander of the air force, gave to the world the names of China's first air heroes: Lieutenant Loi Chong, 23, credited with shooting down four Japanese light bombers in one morning; Lieutenant Wong Sun-sui, age unknown, credited with shooting down two twin-motored bombers near Nanking. Both men were trained in the U. S., used U. S.-built planes...
...Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines to provide him with heirs...
...call was transferred to the office of Surgeon Skinner who explained, delicately, that General Yeh Peng had come to thank him for professional services...