Word: copra
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...Dutch, they want to get out. Their territory is suffering from economic malnutrition, has brought no return from the millions of dollars sunk into it. Last year the territory's total exports of crude oil, copra, spices and skins dwindled to less than $7,000,000. But the Dutch, chastened by their mistakes in Indonesia, are reluctant to abandon New Guinea until the Papuans are ready for self-government, an eventuality that some colonial officials estimate will take 40 years, perhaps considerably longer...
...winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice, and in return bring in the 20th century...
...written exam, and of these only four, on the average, are selected. To avoid a handout psychology, Binamira gets villagers to contribute up to half the cost of each project, in goods or services. Result: the actual cash spent goes a long way. One village built its own copra-drying plant, used part of the profit to add two classrooms to the local school...
...mainly on Chinese panic buying. Actually, the government has gone on financing the deficit incurred fighting the 1958 rebellion by printing more rupiahs than the exports of Indonesia's rich natural resources (nearly half the world's rubber, a fifth of its tin, a third of its copra) could handily pay for. But 95% of Indonesia's 90 million inhabitants, living in a subsistence rural economy that lies below the modern urban superstructure like the coral foundation of a South Pacific atoll, are undisturbed by the currency crises and budgetary storms that agitate the fringing reefs above...
...lived by his remarkably quick wits in a wild and woolly part of the world. First off, he bluffed his way into the colonial service as a sanitation officer. Caught with a high official's wife, he landed gracefully on his feet as the manager of a copra plantation, soon bought a little schooner and took to running freight and passen gers along the coast, running "indentured laborers," i.e., slaves, to the gold fields. Twice he tried for a strike in the gold fields, twice he failed...