Word: copra
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Indonesia's wealthiest island, Sumatra, is bigger than California; Java has more people than the American Midwest. Mountains march down the spines of both islands, and a hundred volcanoes drift their smoke against the blue tropical sky. Indonesia bursts with resources, from copra and hemp to teak, tobacco and oil. The world's largest flower, rafflesia, with a diameter of 3 ft., blooms on Madura. The red-brown soil of Java (pop. 52,000,000), terraced with unbelievable ingenuity, produces two rice crops a year. The warm seas send long rollers crashing on the palm-fringed shores...
...leaders to come help them plan a new village in anticipation of the islanders' return. It was to include brand new modern houses with heat-resistant, rainproof aluminum roofs, a new school, a new hospital, a church, a radio station, scientifically planted groves of coconut designed for maximum copra production, plantations of papaya and breadfruit seedlings, and a whole new fleet of canoes for the local fishermen...
...photograph islands in the South Seas, Photographer Eliot Elisofon traveled 30,000 miles, partly by copra schooner and outrigger canoe, on the island of Nuku Hiva, made an archaeological discovery of carved idols...
...million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit to the U.S. of $1,100,000. In the Virgin Islands the Government sold its rum distillery (Government House brand) and its famed resort hotel, Bluebeard...
...subjects in Cocos. There, everybody knows everybody else, and all security arrangements necessary were adequately handled by two Malay dancers who gyrated gracefully before the royal party, sweeping the evil spirits from the path. Even this precaution was excessive, for under the benevolent tyranny of five generations of Scottish copra growers named Clunies-Ross, who own the Cocos and rule there under the eye of the British government as virtual kings, the Cocosians have achieved a state of social security that is virtually free of crime, disease and the other evil spirits that plague most...