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...operates two million acres of palm-oil plantations in the Belgian Congo, 300,000 acres of coconut plantations in the Solomon Islands. It has its own freighter service between West Africa and England, sends three fleets of its own trawlers into the North Sea for fish (until midway in World War II, Unilever operated 17 of the world's fastest whalers...
...only one point were the delegates nearly unanimous. Careful reporters noted that 41 of them tripped over the coconut mat as they entered Clacton's garish, modernistic Oulton Hall. The 42nd, stepping carefully, was Britain's Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Dalton, who presided over the first of the secret sessions...
...high as 100 feet. Best estimate: 45 feet. Either way, they were enough to smash the city of Hilo on the exposed northeast side of the island of Hawaii, kill some 200 of its inhabitants, deposit 14 feet of silt in its harbor and wriggling fish in its coconut palms...
...West Coast, juke boxes jumped from $325 to $575 apiece in 24
hours.
...Islands this month. The Philippine Airlines has been reorganized, with the help of 560,000 pesos from Transcontinental & Western Air Inc., in exchange for a 28% interest in the company. But it is still awaiting planes to resume flying. Procter & Gamble's Philippine Manufacturing Co. (soaps, lard, coconut products) does not expect to get into production until next spring. Most industrial plants were destroyed, along with the Islands' chief industrial cities, Manila, Cebu and Iloilo. Salvage work on plants which might be restored easily was hamstrung by the inflation which had shot wages and materials sky high...