Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most knowledgeable in combining the exotic, flavorful atmosphere of the East with the well-policed comfort and orderliness of the West. The city itself, officially called Victoria, is on Hong Kong Island. But the crown colony includes some 248 other islands, mostly small, barren and uninhabited, plus Kowloon Peninsula and the New Territories on the Chinese main land-altogether some 398 square miles jammed with 3,000,000 people, 99% of whom are Chinese. Hong Kong booms with banks and stockbrokers, merchants and money lenders, smugglers and illicit dealers in gold, narcotics and women. As fast as new land...
...tailors' touts press calling cards on them and promise custom-made suits within 24 hours for only $25. On their way to the hotel, the cab driver offers his services as guide, confidant and business agent. Climbing the broad stairs to the lobby of the popular, 274-room Peninsula Hotel in Kowloon, which commands an unrivaled view of Hong Kong itself banked against the Peak across the harbor, the visitor is surrounded by shop after shop selling bargain-priced brocades, silks, cameras, pearls, jade, tape recorders, linens, carved ivory and inlaid furniture...
Though opium was not officially outlawed in Hong Kong until 1945, the merchant taipans gradually shifted to less questionable ways of making money. Creating nothing itself, Hong Kong became a vast free port and shipping point. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 and took the New Territories on a 99-year lease from China in 1898. Every disorder on the mainland increased the power and population of Hong Kong. By the turn of the century, 230,000 Chinese were residents; in the 1930s, the chaos caused by Japan's invasion of China brought in a million...
...didn't have a bed to sleep in." Becoming the partner of a Chinese friend, Johnson rented factory space, hired a few score workers and began production of high-fashion women's clothes trademarked Dynasty. He now has a large factory in Kowloon, a showroom in the Peninsula Hotel and exports his clothes around the world. "A lot of guys come out here exploring," says Johnson, "but there's a general reluctance to stay and ride herd on the operation. And that's the only way to make it work...
Such scenes were being enacted nightly last week around Milan's famed Cathedral Square and in Genoa, Como and Rome. "Klaxon girls," as the Italian press calls them, are the latest product of Italy's industrial boom, and they may revolutionize the peninsula's oldest profession...