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1948 Hyperinflation in Shanghai after Chinese Civil War
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0:43Now PlayingDate: 9th September 1948
Location: Unspecified
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
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CHINA: Shanghai: Various:
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CHINA Inflation scenes in Shanghai - people have to use carts to carry around their money. Chinese telephone operators seen being paid 34 million dollars each pay-day
CURRENCY Inflation in Shanghai. People have to use carts etc to carrying around their money. Chinese telephone operators seen being paid 34 million dollars each pay-day
SHANGHAI Inflation scenes - People have to use carts etc to carry around their money. Chinese telephone operators seen being paid 34 million dollars each pay-day
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economy, currency, exchange, money, coinage, depression, war, foreign, purchasing, assets, prices, interest, index, supply and demand, bank run, finance, banks, Chinese Nationalists, civil war, conflict, yuan, renminbi, fiat currency, Yuan Dynasty, Marshall Mission, Manchuria, Communist China, Nationalist-Communist Civil War
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