Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...successor of the Continuation Committee of the World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910. The number of delegates who will attend it is far smaller, but, while the Edinburgh Conference was almost entirely peopled by Americans and Europeans, the Jerusalem Conference includes natives from India, Siam, Ceylon, Japan and other remote districts. The U. S. delegates include famed Dr. Robert Russa Moton, head of Tuskegee Institute, who will talk about Negroes...
...possible. I recall an incident in my own experience which seems to confirm it. I was in Ceylon, digging for elephant bones and tusks in sand which was packed so hard it had almost the consistency of rock. So far as could be observed that layer of sand had been lying there a thousand years. In this impermeable mass about two feet beneath the surface, we uncovered a frog [sic, sic] which was absolutely entombed there. Fortunately it escaped spades and pickaxes and was lifted out alive. Its stomach was full of water which it ejected and then hopped away...
...days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...
...many would like," Dr. Danner said, "but still there is much room for encouragement. The results in Hawaii the Philippines, and Korea still appear to be better than elsewhere. In other places the percentage does not appear to be so high, but whether you go to Australia, Malaya, Ceylon, India, or Africa, you find persons who have recovered from leprosy. In nearly all lands in which the disease exists former lepers have been discharged from asylums, restored to their friends, and are able to resume normal life. Contrast this with the dark picture of only a few years ago when...
...Stevenson Plan went into effect in Malay States, Straits Settlement and Ceylon on Nov. 1, 1919. Rubber had sold as low as 11½c a pound in 1921, well below production costs. The Plan immediately restricted output to 60% of tree capacity. Every three months restrictions were to be tightened or relaxed according to prices at the London rubber market. Thus production went down to 50% Nov., 1924, through Jan., 1925. Last February all restrictions were lifted. Rubber prices were amply high...