Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cries and winds of empire roaring in blowzy sails. It was the last of the big chartered governing companies which carried the City of London to India, and the Crown to the Cape, which spanned -oceans and jungles for the greater glory of Queen and Commerce. The British North Borneo Company-a private corporation whose stock fetched 15s. 6d. on the open market -was still the sole ruler over a quarter of a million natives inhabiting a territory roughly the size of Ireland. But last week the Borneo Company's rule was ending...
...Wind Rises. The Company began in 1872 when a Scots engineer named William Clarke Cowie (who looked like a bartender in one of the very best hotels) ran a Spanish blockade to deliver his cargo of arms to the Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie...
...hills and plains of central China, in the monsoon-soaked jungle of Burma, in the rain forests of Borneo, New Guinea, New Britain and Bougainville, Allied armies fought on, spurred by hope that the bypassed, cut-off Japs would soon get the word and lay down their arms...
...barrels a week westward; Texas and the Gulf fields are shipping another 2,700,000 barrels by ship and by rail & pipeline to East and West Coast ports; the Middle East is supplying another 566,000 barrels a day. Before long, oil may again be coming out of Borneo. But it may be only a trickle of 55,000 barrels daily...
Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...