Word: copra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chance was nearing New Haven again. At Australia all but Alexander Brown and Edward Dodd forsook the romantic wayfaring and, except for Organizer Brooke, returned to the U. S. with despatch and comfort. Mr. Brooke found a languorous island with a comfortable house, numerous servants, and a seemingly profitable copra plantation, and settled down. Lorn Messrs. Brown and Dodd found new Yale shipmates and a Harvard graduate. Last week they slowly approached New Haven aboard the Chance...
...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
Into a vacuum vat he introduced his bacteria, shredded copra, powdered limestone, water. After keeping the temperature at 50° C. for six days he uncapped the vat, found oil floating on the top of the mixture...
Vegetable oils occurring in cottonseed, linseed, copra, peanuts, are held in microscopic cells. About these cells there is a hard crust, largely cellulose, which must be cracked to release the oil. Of the three commercial methods, which produce some seven million tons of oil per year, the most used is the pressure method...
...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...