Word: ceylonization
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...Colombo, Ceylon...
...rigged a laboratory truck with a sort of canvas bath to carry them to the ditches. He now has 31 at work, happily chewing water weeds throughout the colony, and 65 more have been ordered from the fishermen. Inquiries about manatees as ditch cleaners have come from Thailand, Ceylon, Malaya and other weed-bothered tropical countries...
...same court, on the same day, Joan Plowright, 29, droll, saucer-eyed English actress (A Taste of Honey, The Entertainer), was divorced from Actor Roger Gage, 30, after seven years of marriage, no children. Both actions proceeded with classic Noel Cowardy coolness. Miss Leigh admitting adultery in Ceylon, Sir Laurence admitting adultery with Miss Plowright in London, and Gage admitting adultery in Helsinki. Court costs of the fourway, jet-speed split were charged to Sir Laurence, who intends to wed Miss Plowright now that everything is cleared...
STORE-CHAIN PURCHASE made by Maxwell H. Gluck, former U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, boosts to 247 the number of women's-wear stores he controls. For $2,500,000 he bought control of Grayson-Robinson Stores, adding its 107 women's-wear and four camera stores, with $64 million sales, to his string of 140 Darling Stores, with an estimated $30 million sales...
Jersey Standard will take over Stanvac's assets in India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Malagasy and East Africa. Socony Mobil will get the bulk of the assets in the rest of Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Aden, Formosa and much of the Southwest Pacific. The two companies will retain joint ownership of Stanvac's rich Indonesian wells and split the oil business in Japan and the Philippines...