Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomber crew forced down on the sea was rescued by tiny aborigines. They took charge of a bombardier from Brawley, Calif., a navigator from Walla Walla, Wash., primitively tended their wounds, fed them coconut and sugar cane until rescue came...
...Under their 1942 U.S. import quotas, the Philippines at the end of March had yet to ship 418,000,000 lb. of coconut oil, 1,750,000,000 lb. of raw sugar, 5,676,000 lb. of cordage, 200,000,000 cigars...
...transatlantic flying boat taxied to a mooring in Miami, and out stepped a brisk welterweight with a carved-coconut face, Britain's fabulous Lord Beaverbrook. Scrunched into a black overcoat, he emplaned for Washington. There he dined with the President...
...21st day a floating coconut provided slightly brackish milk and meat. By then, as far as he could tell, Dixon was "somewhere in the vicinity of Ireland." Trying to catch another albatross, he had upset the boat and lost his chart...
...perfect pearl, formed not in an oyster but in a coconut, was exhibited last week in Florida by Botanist David Fairchild. One of a dozen found in 9,000,000 East Indian coconuts, the pearl began (scientists believe) when a sprout was unable to force its way through one of the three pores in a germinating nut. Like a sand grain in an oyster, the sprout was then encrusted with layers of calcium carbonate-even though chemists have never found this compound in either the nut's milk or kernel...