Word: copra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whopper-publishers sent forth The Cradle of the Deep as "autobiography" -truth, human document, veracious account of the author's first 17 years as a child of the sea aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, the Minnie A. Caine, copra trader in the South Seas. The chaste and conservative Book-of-the-Month Club offered it to its 80,000 readers. The publishers offered it to the general public. Sales reached...
...Story. Joan was a landlubber- for the first eleven months of her life. After that she went aboard her father's four-masted windjammer, a copra-trading schooner in the South Seas, and stayed there until she could stand her trick at the wheel, pull on the ropes, man the pumps, spit, and cuss with the hardest of shellbacks. After an initial mishap with plug tobacco, she "chawed dried prunes which made grand spit," and spit two successful curves on a single windy day. Aged seven, she further qualified as able-bodied seaman by swearing, without repeating herself...
...Cotton, Copra, Broom Corn, Vegetable Oils, Hides. The American Farm Bureau Federation asked for duties on all these things as well as on bananas and horse-radish (above...
...Navy Department, its present governor is Captain E.S. Kellogg, U.S.N. It is 4.200 miles from San Francisco, 4,200 miles from Manila. Its 9,000 natives, called the highest type of the Polynesian race, are all Christians. The chief product is cocoanuts, the dried kernel of which is copra...