Word: thailanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communist cannon that conquered Dienbienphu still rumbled over the vast rimland of non-Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...
...story is set in the jungles of Thailand during World War II, where British prisoners, at forced labor, are building a railroad from Bangkok to Rangoon. At one prison camp along the way, the fanatical Japanese commandant, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), is having trouble. The senior officer of a new consignment of prisoners, a prim old pukka sahib named
...handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that is still largely jungle. Recently, licenses were granted for 25 television receivers, though Laos has no TV station. The receivers were smuggled back into Thailand and resold at an enormous profit. There are more cars in Laos, mostly purchased with U.S. aid dollars, than there are miles of road to run them on. Some other mysterious recent requests by Lao entrepreneurs include one for 37 tons of toothpaste, another for 4½ tons of feather...
...Pretty, smartly gowned Mrs. Robert North, 37, now secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, who went there as the wife of a Hollywood screen writer in 1950. She stayed on after his death to run her own bottling and solid carbon dioxide works by putting up $10,000 herself, raising the other $150,000 in local funds. Worth of her business today:$350,000. Yearly profit: upwards...
...William Augustus Richardson Jr., 37, round-the-world Canadian mining and prospecting share operator (TIME, Feb. 4), who lined up so many interesting possibilities that he is taking off on a firsthand inspection trip to Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. He said he can raise $200 million if the mining ventures pan out. Among the possibilities: a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 deal with Bulent Yazici, executive vice president of Turkey's Industrial Development Bank, to build Turkey's first chrome-plating mill...