Word: copra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams had previously cased Tetiaroa and found it covered with thousands of coconut palms, from which he could realize a tidy profit in copra . . . and in a short time he had the island producing . . . But he quickly found that rats on Tetiaroa were determined to thwart this commercial enterprise . . . He advertised in Papeete for cats . . . and soon streams of Tahitian lads were trotting to his office and home with yowling cats in bags, crates and nets...
...boom has a foundation. Through the islands, hemp and copra production is steeply up; canefields converted to rice and cotton during the war have been turned back to-more profitable sugar; refineries are going full blast; inter-island shipments are heavier than prewar...
Planter Kuper reported that Communists had taken advantage of unemployment in the copra industry to incite the islanders. The movement, also called "Marching Rule" (Marxian Rule), was led by natives from Malaita Island, traditional headhunters who had been proselytized by Australian Communist servicemen. The Malaita agitators, according to Kuper, were in touch with a U.S.-organized Communist cell on Guadalcanal...
...cost of the strike was incalculable. Such badly needed imports as copra, rubber, tin, tung oil, hemp, lead, wool, coffee, tallow and hides were cut off. Almost half a million men were out of work...
...life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...