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...Getter Pawley went to China to see why C.N.A.C. was not coining money. The reasons are not on the record, but he finally sold out to Pan Am again. By that time Bill Pawley had made pals of China's bankers T. V. Soong and Dr. H. H. Kung-not to mention Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. Soon he convinced them that China needed its own airplane factory with Bill Pawley to build...
...this was well and bitterly known to Lauchlin Currie when he faced Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and many another Chinese personage last week on Vice President H. H. Kung's lawn in Chungking. President Roosevelt had sent Dr. Currie to Chungking once before, in 1941, when Lend-Lease was a glowing promise. Now he was back, in the sixth and darkest year of China...
...little more confidence." In China he got it fast. Paying his own fare out to Shanghai, Jacoby wangled a job under Dr. Hollington Tong, was delegated to reorganize Chungking's radio broadcasting. When he had got U.S. hookups for Madame Chiang Kaishek, her sisters (Madame Kung and Madame Sun Yat-sen), he headed home via Indo-China. He stopped over eight months, got arrested for taking pictures during the Jap invasion, came out a full-fledged U.P. correspondent...
Chungking fell back to horse & buggy days. High officials began riding rickshas to set a good example; Finance Minister Dr. H. H. Kung and War Minister Ho Ying-chin apologized publicly for the extravagant motoring of subordinates. The Minister of Communications set up a "bus" line of brightly painted two-wheel carts drawn by stubborn little Szechwan ponies. Most commercial trucks and private cars were withdrawn from the road...
...Treatment. With 13 billion Chinese dollars' worth of U.S. and British credit to play with, Daddy Kung ought now to be able to operate more successfully on the gangrene of inflation. Dr. Chiang suggested some ways this might be accomplished...