Word: walle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Yasuji Okamura, for many years overlord of all North China, brooded in the gloomy rooms of the Foreign Office in Nanking; his last function is that of "chief liaison officer" between his own stranded army and Chinese headquarters. There were 1,100,000 Japanese soldiers below the Great Wall in China when the war ended-far more than U.S. estimates before V-J day. The last 400,000 troops, who at Chungking's direction have policed railroads and held approaches to principal cities since Aug. 15, are being rounded up and disarmed. Each day the U.S. air forces...
...training devices; to younger officers like Vice Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, head of the Bureau of Personnel; to "Navy radicals" like Radford and Mitscher; to the best of the surface ship men, like Rear Admiral W. H. P. ("Spike") Blandy, onetime chief, Bureau of Ordnance; to Eugene Duffield, ex-Wall Street Journal writer, now his special assistant...
Forrestal's back, in fact, may soon be turned. There have been signs that he wants to get out, possibly to return to Wall Street, possibly to go into New York politics. Whether Forrestal, who has served his country long and well, wants a respite or a bigger field of operations is the secret of the close-mouthed Secretary, who still likes to work in anonymity...
Kalgan, crossroad of camel caravans from Central Asia, is the Mongolian gateway through the Great Wall into North China. Occupied by the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army, Kalgan has become the Communist metropolis (130,000 population), outranking Yenan in size and wealth. It has a cigaret factory, machine shops, a power plant, an iron smelter, railway facilities. It is military headquarters for all Communist operations in Shansi, Hopeh, Chahar and Jehol Provinces and in Manchuria...
...white-haired, bespectacled vice president, told a Senate Committee: a calculating, subsidized lessee would "spend money with abandon to capture customers and markets and to create a sales organization which would be useful to him when he purchased the plant, sell below cost, drive Alcoa . . . to the wall, and capture customers for later use. The more he spent during the period of the lease, the better. The Reconstruction Finance Corp. pays the bills...