Word: ceylonization
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...Reported off Ceylon last week was her sister ship, the Queen Mary, loaded with Australian soldiers...
...Nichi Nichi drew a line which almost coincides with the frontiers of Siberia, giving Japan's Greater East Asia all of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and India. The coast line of East Asia, said Nichi Nichi, extends "from Northern Nippon southward to Indonesia, then westward to Ceylon. Asia's history shows how long there has been intercourse along this coast line. No matter how we look at this East Asia, it is a natural and inseparable unit...
...Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World...
Main case history in Western Hemisphere rubber planting is that of Henry Ford. In 1922, the British Government helped Malayan and Ceylon producers go on an oldtime monopolistic spree that sent the price of rubber (in good years between 15?^ and 20?^) skyrocketing to over $1.20 in 1925. To help break the monopoly, Ford, in 1927, got himself two concessions in Brazil. On some 2,000,000 lush jungle acres, he settled 2,000 workers and their families...
...cultural veneer, an expertness on piano and violin, a fluency in French and a smattering of English. At 18 (or thereabouts) she took her first serious plunge into the outside world by going, with 125 members of the Italian Navy League, on a semi-official junket to India and Ceylon...