Word: ceylonization
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...Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened a new run to Hong Kong from French Indo-China; the British Overseas Airways Corp. has added a leg to Ceylon from Karachi...
This was the first ripple to disturb the smooth flow of the tea trade since 1942, when the Japanese overran 35% of the world's sources. Tea still came from India and Ceylon. Though supply was short, the Allies froze prices at the 1942 level (while coffee prices rose 68%, cocoa...
...jump was in labor, the biggest cost factor. (It takes a lot of picking and sorting to make a pound, since only the three end leaves on every branch-the Pekoe leaves-are picked.) On top of that, India slapped on an export tax of 7¾? a lb., Ceylon, 12?. When the free market was restored in tea last January, the world found that demand was 25% greater than supply...
...evil-smelling darkness of the Victory Theater on Washington Street, a well-balanced program is being shown these days. While one picture demonstrates graphically the dangers of Ceylon rural life, the other is equally disenchanting about our own urban civilization. But for the man who does not give a hang for the sociological view, and merely wants to be entertained, both features are the nuts...
...paper. In Providence, R. I., stonecutters have refused to cut names into tombstones shipped ready-shaped from Sweden and Finland. And in Britain last week, Food Minister John Strachey told a truly shocked House of Commons that the tea ration might have to be cut, partly because India and Ceylon did not like Government-regulated tea buying...