Word: yuan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China, Manuel Fox will be a member of the United States Dollar-Chinese Yuan Stabilization Board. Already there, or on the way, are his fellow-members, modest, capable Chairman K. P. Chen and Britain's Cyril Rogers. The board will study all phases of Chinese economy-taxes, earning power, transportation, etc. But its big job will be to manage China's $90,000,000 Stabilization Fund, try to stop inflation in unoccupied China (where $1.70 in Chinese money buys only one pound of rice...
...Yuan Shih...
Three weeks ago the famed Eighth Route Army, rallying bands of tough farmers, went to work. By last week the Japanese Army admitted "considerable embarrassment," which is Japanese for plenty trouble. Guerrillas had cut the Peking-Hankow and Shihkiachwang-Tai-yuan Railways. They had captured and destroyed Japanese busses and trucks on the Peking-Tientsin road. And they had ensconced themselves in the beautiful Western Hills-not 30 miles from the city they stubbornly call Peiping...
Three years ago Chan Tze-ming and Wang Chi-fu signed on in Chefoo, China, with 18 other Chinese, to sail the Kwang Yuan. The crew discovered that the "Chinese" company which had bought the craft had placed aboard three Japanese officers, learned in San Francisco the Kwang Yuan was to carry 2,100 tons of scrap iron to an Osaka (Japanese) munitions factory...
Last week, as he has every week since 1938, "Captain" Chan climbed over the side, rowed solemnly ashore, asked with impassive Oriental punctilio for sailing orders. As always, there were none. For the Kwang Yuan there may never be any. "Captain" Chan bowed politely, bent his oars back to his command...