Word: shantung
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...Manhattan dress designer named Wilma announced a new specialty-wedding dresses for divorcees. She suggested a pink silk shantung suit for the second marriage, a black silk faille suit with a crystal embroidered lace blouse for the third. Said Wilma: "The bride's sophistication should increase in direct ratio to the marriage multiple...
...other fronts, however, the sagging Nationalists gave ground. Shantung was almost entirely in Communist hands. Along the strategic corridor from North China toward Manchuria the Communists seemed ready for new offensives. For General Hu, as for all of Nationalist China, the external and internal pressures were mounting...
...bulletins pouring into Nanking continued bad. The Communists were driving a corridor through fertile Shantung; Communist divisions, held up by this month's thaw and mud, were massing around Mukden for a spring offensive...
...yowls and hisses from the floor. One excited delegate jumped up to the mike, crying: "The country is almost lost! How can we talk about moneybags? To save the country is the important thing." Honan delegates stood up, howling: "Our homes are in danger!" and started a walkout. Shantung men called for reinforcements. Shansi wanted more bombing planes. Mongols and Turkis asked if the government had forgotten that the northwest was a gateway to the Chinese heartland. "Trust us ... arm us and we shall fight the Communist bandits...
...Manchuria, nine Communist divisions were pushing toward Tahushan, 65 miles southwest of the government's enclave at Mukden. Capture of Tahushan would block Nationalist efforts to reopen land communications with the Mukden forces. In Shantung, the north coast cities of Weihaiwei, Lungkow and Tengchow had been evacuated by government troops. To the northwest the Reds pressed down on the steadily narrowing Paotow-Tientsin corridor, and wealthy citizens sold their belongings for wads of paper money that they hoped would pay for their flight south...