Word: copra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made only brief trips away from Japan-though he was once a copra planter on Saipan and has made 14 trips to the South Seas-but his works have traveled far. Among U.S. collectors: Greta Garbo, Joan Fontaine, Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, Edward G. Robinson...
When Americans returned to Kusaie last year they found the natives again impoverished and racked by disease. The Navy set up dispensaries, established markets for crops (taro, copra, sweet potatoes) and native handiwork. Last week King John of Kusaie solemnly inscribed in his native language a petition to the President of the U.S. It said: "We earnestly desire that Kusaie be made a permanent possession, and we request that our people shall be kept forever under the protection of the American flag...
...Belgium would give her small, densely-settled, mid-African mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, where police see that every native (except the pygmies) keeps at least 1¼ acres under cultivation. Australia would turn over phosphate-rich Nauru, New Guinea and neighboring islands. New Zealand was ready to relinquish mountainous, copra-producing Western Samoa...
Will the U.S. Pay? Exporters estimated that at best it would be 18 months before they would have tobacco to ship abroad in volume; three years for sugar, four to five years for gold. Only hemp and copra can be exported in quantity in the near future...
...Long Trail. For General Eichelberger and his Eighth Army, Tokyo was the end of one of the bitterest, hardest fought trails of the Pacific War. For the General it began three years and 4,000 roundabout miles away, in the blood and mud of a wretched copra settlement called Buna on the north coast of New Guinea...