Word: ceylon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another observer, Mr. W. G. Tinckam Fernandez emphasizes the importance of the social upheaval. From Punjab to Ceylon, Gandhi has stirred up the Parlabs against the Brahmans. The traditional casts system, which has so long divided India into myriad factions, now seems on the point of breaking up. Out of a new unity may spring a new national feeling to threaten English political dominance as it has never been threatened by the combined attacks of native princes and the external pressure of France and Russia...
Four years ago, Russia, which drank half the world's tea production, was forced to forego luxuries. In consequence, the tea business entered a disastrous slump. About $225,000,000 British capital is invested in the tea industry; some 400 growers in India and Ceylon are financed in London; and about two-thirds of the world's crop is sold in the Mincing Lane market in London. The British made up their minds that if Russians could not buy tea, somebody else must. They subscribed $2,000,000 for publicity and advertising, to increase tea-drinking. Just...
...British per capita consumption has increased 30% in ten years, and a heavier demand has sprung up in the U. S., Canada, New Zealand, India, Arabia and even along the Persian Gulf. Last year's tea-crop was 457,000,000 lb., 90% of it from India and Ceylon; yet demand threatens to outrun supply, and English stocks are weak. From the tea industry's standpoint, U. S. consumption is particularly interesting. In this country, the average family consumes only five pounds of tea-an eighth as much as is consumed by a British family. We can afford...
Hookworm work was carried on during the year in Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Australia, Fiji, Siam, Ceylon, Mainland India, Mauritius...
...feature bout of the evening was the match between H. J. Freedman 1M., last year's champion, and P. E. Pieris 1G., the native of Ceylon who was last year's champion of Oxford and Cambridge, England. The first part of the bout was quite even, but in the last half the superiority of Freedman won him the descision...