Word: ceylonization
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...soon as he had sold his supply of basins. The producer happily spread the news of his coup in Rome's movie circles, then read in the next day's paper that his discovery was actually Olivier himself passing through Rome to make a new movie in Ceylon...
Rubber for Rice. Three non-Communist nations resist U.S. pressure. Egyptian cotton deliveries to Chinese Communist ports doubled in the past year; Pakistan's jumped from $45 million in 1951 to $54 million in the first six months of 1952. Most alarming of all, Ceylon, a member of the British Commonwealth, recently signed a five-year agreement to send 250,000 tons of rubber to the Red mainland. The U.S. had offered to buy the rubber at prevailing world prices, but the Ceylonese demanded an extra $50 million U.S. aid (in addition to the purchase price) as a condition...
...from New York's Idlewild Airport last week roared a Trans World Airline Constellation, bound for a destination new to its crew: Ceylon. Some 41 hours and 10,000 miles later it put down at Colombo, the thriving capital. By week's end it was back with a cargo of 100 lbs. of Ceylon's finest tea, bandar Eliya (cost, $2.17 a lb.), a gift for T.W.A.'s officers for starting the first U.S. air service to the picturesque island. T.W.A. opened the route by extending its Bombay flight 1,000 miles to the southeast...
Ralph Damon, T.W.A.'s president, and Chairman Warren Lee Pierson, who looks after T.W.A.'s overseas work, hope to fly tourists and cargo in & out of Ceylon. They also have a bigger goal, plan to use Ceylon as a steppingstone, if the Civil Aeronautics Board permits, to fly on to Bangkok, a traffic-rich crossroads...
World War II did little to interrupt the astronomer-captain's hobby; bombs and torpedoes, in fact, appeared to avoid his ships. In the harbor of Trincomalee, Ceylon, Japanese airplanes sank two neighboring ships; U-boats in the West Indies knocked off three ships sailing close at hand. But nothing happened to any of Captain Drent's commands, and nothing interfered with his astronomical studies. The wartime blackout was actually a help: it allowed the captain's eyes to adjust to darkness, the better to observe the zodiacal light...