Word: copra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today starts a mass exodus of CRIMSON editors to the tiny village of Lobenguiatown. Mashonaland, somewhat north of the Upper Limpopo. The Crimeds' caravan of insoluble Copra rafts departs from Gloucester at 1635. They will be guided across the ocean by Edward J. Coughlin '52, noted international spy. Those unable to meet Coughlin's rigid security regulations will stay behind to put out the Commencement issues. No other Crime until September...
Principal crops: rice (more of which has to be imported to eke out the local supply), abaca (the famous Manila hemp), copra, sugar, corn, tobacco. The seasons: hot (March through June), rainy (July through October), cool (November through February). In the hot season, the government itself picks up & leaves Manila, settles down in the mountain city of Baguio (pop. 29,262), which is the official summer capital...
...Filipinos had left their nipa huts and tethered carabaos, their paddies and abaca fields, copra sheds and sugar centrals to cast their votes in a free election. After five years of catching their shirttails and mashing their fingers in the machinery of democracy, imported and installed for them by the U.S., the Filipinos had demonstrated that they were learning how to operate...
...coral islets whose tall coconut palms are fanned by the soft trade winds of the Indian Ocean midway between Ceylon and Australia. Until last week, one of the loneliest men there was its benevolent ruler: king John Clunies-Ross, a slim young (22) Briton who rules the 1,200 copra-gathering islanders under a 999-year charter granted by Queen Victoria to his great-greatgrandfather, Ross I, a Scot from the Shetland Isles, who settled there...
...plant, a lead plant and a zinc mine, and built a turpentine and rosin distillator. Everything he did led to something else. The crushing season for linseed oil lasted only six months; to keep his plant busy the rest of the year, Joyce started crushing coconut oil from copra. Since the best market for coconut oil was in food products, he bought up seven food companies, including E. R. Durkee & Co. (spices, Worcestershire sauce, mayonnaise and oleomargarine...