Word: camphor
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During the War, Mme. Suzuki increased her wealth reputedly, something over $100,000,000 in transactions involving camphor, sugar, shipping, real estate. Like J. P. Morgan, she is her firm, controlling absolutely the three score subsidiaries scattered throughout the world in which Suzuki & Co. own a predominant interest...
...area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only a very small percentage comes from the Philippines. If, therefore, Americans would help the Filipinos to develop their great resources, the benefit would be mutual. We need their products. The need our financing and technical...
Synthetic Italy. There was Prince Piero Ginori Conti of Italy, who described the taming of waterfalls and hot volcanic springs in the Apennines to produce the power to make the electricity that now supplies Italy with acetic acid without apples (vinegar); wood alcohol from coal instead of trees; camphor, ammonia, formaldehyde, artificial silk for black shirts, from their chemical constituents...
...acquired in tracts greater than 2,500 acres, the Moros grateful for self-government, would surely be more farsighted and generous. They would not shy as do the Filipinos at the thought of "exploitation" but would gladly permit U. S. corporations to acquire, besides rubber forests, huge coffee, camphor, quinine and sisal plantations as well, for which there will soon be need according to Mr. Bacon. Like a good businessman he brushed aside the antiquated altruism of the U. S. commission of 1900-1902 under William Howard Taft and the Act of 1902 signed by President Roosevelt, whose sole purpose...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials?Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...