Word: kweilin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southeast, Chennault had dispersed his planes widely after the loss of Kweilin and Liuchow. Now, from secret bases, they went on attacking Hong Kong. The Japs retaliated by bombing two Allied airfields deep in Kiangsi Province...
Commander of the band of destroyers was 25-year-old Major Frank Gleason, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Shy, redheaded Major Gleason and his men arrived in Kweilin last summer to teach demolition techniques to the Chinese. When the Japs began their autumn offensive, he and his men stopped teaching and began destroying...
Virgil and the Colonels. Kweilin, with nearby Liuchow, forms the hub of southeast China's highways and railroads. Refugees were rushing in like animals before a forest fire. The 16 Americans among the thousands of fleeing Chinese went methodically to work mining road junctions, digging cavities under bridges, under abutments in the sides of denies...
Meanwhile T.V.'s appointment had given China and China's friends a new burst of hope. In a full summer and autumn of battle, the Chinese had been defeated at Hengyang. They had been defeated at Kweilin. The first break in their successive defeats was last week's victory in Kweichow. The road to victory was still up the sharp sides of mountains. But with T.V. at work again, there was a new faith that China would one day get over the hump...
...black market rate of 200 Chinese dollars to one U.S. dollar. This gave rise to a faint hope that the rate might be stabilized, a start made towards a basis for postwar trade. Last week this hope went aglimmering. The Chinese dollar, which slipped after the fall of Kweilin and Liuchow, tobogganed to one-third of its previous value. Last week it took 600 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Businessmen, who have long staggered under loads of currency on their way to the bank, now hire coolies to carry the day's receipts...