Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dying City. Despite Ta Rung Pao's complaint, Shanghai was well on the way to becoming an economic graveyard. Industrial production was down an estimated 50%, and still falling. "The Chin Chong Iron Works," read an item in the press, "is trying to sell electric fans for 30,000 jenminpiao each (about $12 U.S.), which is only sufficient to cover labor costs, but there are no buyers...
...tide, which had finally caught up with them. They had funneled into the city to set up dirty, mat-shed colonies. They had lived by begging or scratching in garbage piles. Already, said Communist authorities, 400,000 refugees had left the city-half "voluntarily," the remainder "sent." Still to go were more than 1,000,000 refugee landowners, "loafers" or petty black-marketeers, paupers, unemployed factory hands and dismissed government workers...
...closely tied to Canada's dollar-shortage problem: crude-oil imports ($200 million last year) were third on the list of her dollar spending (after coal and industrial machinery). The saving of $200 million would help to meet the dollar deficit. Oil sales in the U.S. would help still more, and Canadians thought that the U.S. would not ignore this fact in its concern for the western world's economic health...
...span of life in the U.S. is still lengthening. Based on mortality figures for 1947 (the latest year for which statistics have been compiled), the average life expectancy of a U.S. child at birth is 66.8 years, the National Office of Vital Statistics said last week. This is almost two years greater than the average for 1939-41. White women can expect to live 70.6 years; white men, 65.2; non-white women, 61.9; non-white...
...Dennis had some vision. On Kenneth, who had none, an ophthalmologist operated to remove part of the fibrous tissue. He believed that it was not the retina, but that the retina was shriveled and displaced. By last week, Dennis Hoffmann's vision was-improving slowly, but Kenneth was still sightless...