Word: piculs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end the price of rice, up more than 100% in a month, was 320,000 Chinese dollars a picul (133⅓ lbs.). Worried authorities sought to bridle it with a program of ration cards, ceiling prices, warnings to hoarders and manipulators, and assurances of ample supply. But many a rice shop, in fear and protest and in the face of restless queues, stubbornly stayed shut. And unhappy Little Happiness still sang his bitter song...
...undertaking reform. Shanghai's new mayor, K. C. Wu, appears to be making an earnest effort to improve the situation in Shanghai. Wu's program to cut rice prices this week brought the price down in two days from 60,000 to 51,000 dollars a picul at week's end, and resulted in the arrest of" Jen Hsin-ya, section chief of the Shanghai Food Commissioner's Office, on charges of irregularities in the discharge of his duties as administrator of the billion-(Chinese) dollar Government rice loan...
...gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight, more than...
...picul of gold was a drop in the bucket; he had reaped one of the polyglot Portuguese colony's biggest fortunes from his teeming salons, where gamblers from nearby Hong Kong and South China came for fan-tan and cusek (played with dice). During the war Foo got into the big time; he cornered Macao's food market. On the profits he kept six concubines in a Macao mansion...
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