Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after midnight, people in the La Salle Hotel's big, ornate lobby in Chicago's Loop noticed a strange yellow light reflecting from polished table tops, from marble and window glass. The wavering glare grew. They looked up and saw flames billowing gustily across the dark, varnished paneling above the elevator bank...
...river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
...valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
China's Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying, scheming, writing about the Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
...Manchuria garrisons. He feared that one side or the other might attempt to blow up his dikes in order to pin the blame on the opposition. But if he won his race, millions would live to bless Oliver Todd as millions had blest old Emperor Yu, who tamed the Yellow River (temporarily) 4243 years ago, in China's Golden...