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Word: sugarbowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last, eight months after V-J day, sugar-starved China was getting supplies from its new sugarbowl, Formosa. Ships were plying the 400 miles from Kiirun to Shanghai with the first of 150,000 tons of Japanese stores confiscated by the Chinese Army that took over the island, under U.S. tutelage, last fall. But the resumption of trade with tropically lush, industrially rich Formosa was a sweet-&-sour business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: This Is the Shame | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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