Word: copra
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...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...
Last week, directly after Foreign Minister Bidault's speech, the Government took another step toward the new Union. Upon some 20,000 creamy, copra-gathering South Sea Islanders, inhabitants of French Raïatea, Tahaa, Huahine, Bora-Bora, Maupiti, Mopelia, Rurutu and Rimatara, it bestowed French citizenship...
Sikaiana stories were not harmed in the least by the fact that relatively little is known of the Stewart group. In peacetime only schooners in the copra trade call there. Sikaiana, one and a quarter miles long, is the largest of the five islands sur rounding a broad lagoon. But even its exact geographical location is disputed: A 1933 report indicated that it lies some 13 miles east of where the charts show...
Meanwhile, the routine camp life goes on. The Marines bivouacked in encampments over an area of jungles and palm trees. The palm trees here are part of the world's largest coconut plantation, owned by Lever Bros., and are the source of copra for soaps that are sold all over the globe...
...there were Japs," Dixon explained, "we didn't want to be crawling." But there were no Japs, only a deserted copra hut. In this the men slept. All their adventure now lacked was a shapely native girl to find them the next morning...