Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain acquired its share of New Guinea in two lumps: 90,540 square miles as a grab in 1883, 68,500 square miles as a League of Nations mandate from Germany in 1919. The Reich is of course not forgetting this. Hitler could use the rubber, coconut and sisal plantations of British New Guinea...
...substituting annually declining export quotas for annually rising tariffs on major Philippine products with the exception of sugar (coconut oil, tobaccos, pearl & shell buttons), the Senate voted to save these island industries from extinction at least until the Independence year of 1946. As an original sponsor of Philippine Independence, Maryland's unpurged Millard Tydings had talked it over with Franklin Roosevelt, agreed with him that the islands could not stand too sudden a shift from free trade with...
...priming the pump: "Consumer buying power is the milk in the coconut of all business...
...Deal launched a $4,000,000,000 spending program calculated to raise consumers' buying power. It did, but a year later recession again rears its ugly head, and this time the Administration, in spite of what the President said May 22 about the milk and the coconut (see p. 15), is tempted to try something else, is toying with the idea of spending for capital goods...
...Congress provincial governments have outlawed the distillation, sale and consumption of liquor in numerous small experimental areas. In other places bars and liquor shops have been closed on pay days, thus making it more likely that the Hindu workman will get home with his salary before spending it on coconut toddy, a sort of ancient moonshine which is his favorite cheap drink...