Word: whangpoo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toothpicks" or "Droopy Drawers." But to the Chinese servants he was "the only son of an only son, first cousin to the President of the U.S. ... a nephew of the King of England, and [owner of] the tongue of a five-clawed dragon." Twenty American gunboats lay on the Whangpoo, simply waiting for him to whistle them up to shell his enemies to bits. He was familiar with the tomb of General Grant, and hailed from Pittsburgh - a spot that in piety ranked second only to 156 Fifth Avenue (Presbyterian Headquarters...
...west, Major General L. Claire Chennault's Liberators smashed at Japanese shipping on the Whangpoo near Shanghai. Northeast of the Philippines the Volcano Islands, halfway between the southern Marianas and Tokyo, were raided by Major General Willis Hale's Liberators from new bases on Saipan. Hale's Seventh Air Force heavies also smashed at the Bonins, still closer to Tokyo. From the north Aleutian-based bombers attacked the Kurils...
Shanghai is two cities: one a sprawling, sinful Oriental beehive of nearly 3,500,000 Chinese, the other the 60,000 foreigners living along the Whangpoo in the snug, smug plutocracy of the International Settlement and the more raffish French Concession. Since the Japanese took over the Chinese city in 1937, the Settlement has been an island in a sea of intrigue and guerrilla warfare. Round it have prowled gunmen, tough, graft-hungry Japanese soldiers, the gangster bravos and police of the puppet Nanking Government...
...Municipal Council of the International Settlement of Shanghai was a government as close to a plutocracy as the world has ever seen. For 96 years the Council ran the big city on the Whangpoo mud flats for the especial benefit of a tiny group of the city's biggest Occidental taxpayers, the taipans. heads of the biggest business houses in the Settlement. Last week, after staving off the determined Japanese since 1932, the International Settlement was under Japanese rule...
...Shanghai's plutocratic big bosses, the taipans, do their drinking at the Shanghai Club, or their business in air-conditioned offices along The Bund. Back of the skyscraper skyline along the Whangpoo River, where the Occident meshes with China, is the biggest, toughest, richest big-city badlands in the world. Kidnappings, bombings, murders are the small change of its life, and a holdup man can rent a gun from a policeman for $2.50. This Shanghai has its own polyglot dynasty of gangsters, gamblers, pimps, racketeers...