Word: shanghai
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...columns moved into nearby truck-farming areas, fresh vegetables disappeared from the city's open-air markets. Shanghai's fishing fleet lay idle at the docks. The price of yellow fish, one of the city's staple foods, jumped six times in one day; then the fish all but vanished from the market. By night the incandescent white light of star shells blossomed periodically in the skies around Shanghai. Tracer shells splashed lines of red along the horizon. One shell hit a Standard Vacuum Oil Co. tank near the Whangpoo and 2,000 tons of gasoline went...
...Park Hotel on Nanking Road, 200 Nationalist soldiers, "heroes of the defense of Shanghai," were wined & dined as the city's guests. On two-day furloughs, they relaxed in bathhouses, had haircuts "on the house," attended Chinese opera at the Heavenly Frog Theater, peepshows at the Great World Amusement Center. They even sat doggedly through Laurence Olivier's cinema Hamlet...
...morning at week's end, fugitives from Shanghai arrived at Lunghua airport, found the field deserted, a brief message scrawled in chalk across the schedule board. The message read: "Evacuated at midnight." That afternoon, some 750 miles to the south in Hong Kong, an American pilot who had flown one of the last planes out of Shanghai shrugged and said: "Looks like we'll all be going home soon. We're running out of cities to evacuate...
From crumbling Shanghai, TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle cabled...
...miles from the Communist front lines southwest of Shanghai, in the city's smartest residential section, a fresh-faced young Chinese officer stood before a bluff, hearty Englishwoman. Behind him stood several soldiers, holding baskets of wood shavings. They had come to burn down Mrs. Gladys Hawkings' house because it was "in the line of fire." Said firm, 58-year-old Mrs. Hawkings: "Young man, I was living in this house before you were born. This is my home and I intend to stay...