Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flesh. By U.S. standards, living conditions in Japan are intolerable. Seasonal rice workers earn 4.29 yen a day (before war-time inflation, the yen was quoted at 23½ U.S. cents), war workers six yen. Japanese will pay a general income tax of 10 to 20%, a sales tax of 20 to 120% on all commodities except basic foods and cotton textiles. Eighty percent of the national income will go to the Government in taxes and bonds...
Other U.S. hits include Arsenic and Old Lace, Junior Miss, My Sister Eileen, Panama Hattie. Producer Firth Shephard has such a yen for putting on U.S. plays that a current revue gag runs: "What's Firth Shephard looking so unhappy about ?"-"Oh, someone's given him an English play to read...
...This treaty probably includes an invitation to whatever is left of postwar Poland to join Czecho-Slovakia and Russia in a Slavic union. But Czecho-Slovakia has no great yen to deal with the present, anti-Russian Polish Government in Exile, and may first seek and get some sort of political and economic union with liberated Austria...
...Jimmy Yen is organizing postwar plans for China. To many a Chinese he is more important than generals or cabinet ministers. In any case, he speaks for the Ping-min Chiao-yu, the Mass Education Movement which he founded and directs, and which revolutionized Chinese education by using Basic Chinese...
...characters (words) most commonly used by plain people, selected from the 40,000-odd available characters. It can be learned in 96 hours from four little books. Chinese coolies and peasants (85% of the population) now need only bestir themselves a bit to become literate. Jimmy Yen sees to it that they stir increasingly...