Word: shanghai
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. officials on the spot shared the general feeling of despair. The embassy advised U.S. citizens to move not only out of North China, but even from the Nanking-Shanghai area. The U.S. Army began to ship out hundreds of wives and children of U.S. military personnel...
...hour, the fall of Mukden, after the government's stubborn attempt to stay in Manchuria, gravely affected public confidence in the regime. Economic pressure forced the government at week's end to give up its price-control program as a failure, unfreeze price and wage ceilings. Overnight Shanghai prices increased four to five times. The new gold yuan (TIME, Aug. 30) had started on the same giddy spiral as the old Chinese national dollar...
...happen to be planning or debating a vacation trip abroad with your family* during the forthcoming year, the following account of TIME Inc. Bureau Chief William Gray and family's two-month sightseeing trip from Shanghai to New York City via Europe may serve to help or inspire...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
Chiang returned to China in 1937 with his blonde Russian wife. Of privileged financial big shots he once said: "If you do not scare them, they will scare you." Last week he had Shanghai's fat merchants badly scared. Before a cheering "Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...