Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week hot-tempered Mayor LaGuardia announced that he had fired hot-tempered Jim Kieran. "He called me a guinea* -----------," said the Little
...pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although one of New Guinea's highest peaks is named for her), but she can hardly fail to appreciate what a windfall came to her little country the day in 1602 when daring adventurers of the Dutch East India Co. set out on a five-year voyage to claim the islands...
...Netherlands has the richest share: Sumatra, Java, the Celebes, most of Borneo, half of Timor and of New Guinea...
Great Britain has most of Malaya, Burma, Sarawak, the other half of New Guinea, and Hong Kong...
Britain acquired its share of New Guinea in two lumps: 90,540 square miles as a grab in 1883, 68,500 square miles as a League of Nations mandate from Germany in 1919. The Reich is of course not forgetting this. Hitler could use the rubber, coconut and sisal plantations of British New Guinea...