Word: amoy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shanghai, Hongkong, Calcutta, Swatow, Madras, Bombay, Bankok, Amoy and Fu-chau he has great oil storage tanks. Standard Oil has similar stores...
Manhattan rubbermen recalled that rubber tycoon Tan Kah-kee is a slender, old fashioned Chinaman some five feet two inches tall and about fifty years of age. He founded his rubber business in 1910 at Singapore, and now enjoys a. fabulous income which enables him to live luxuriously at Amoy, on the coast of Southern China. Uneducated in the western sense, and speaking only Chinese & Malayan, he has a passion for educational philanthropies and makes up each year the large deficit of a university which he founded at Amoy. He has several times visited Europe but professes an unalterable resolve...
...Amoy, picturesque port of Fukien province, opposite the Japanese island of Formosa, local Chinese merchants expressed themselves as being weary of the boycott engineered by their compatriots. They instituted attempts to lift business from its paralytic cot, to open schools this month...
...seven Capitals we own our Embassies: London, Paris, Constantinople, Havana, Mexico City, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro. In eight capitals, we now own our Legations* ? Prague, Christiania, Tangier, Bangkok (Siam), Peking, Panama, San Jose (Costa Rica), San Salvador. We own our Consulates at Shanghai, Amoy (Southern China), Seoul (Korea), Tahiti...