Word: hemp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which had a warm, luxurious look. The floors were of bluestone flagging and designed for radiant heating coils. Breuer, whose knack of combining materials to bring out all their best qualities is much admired by fellow architects, had taken the cold-stone curse off the floors with rugs of hemp matting...
...Marijuana, a drug made from Indian hemp, is sometimes grown furtively on vacant city lots. Medical research has been unable to find positive evidence that it is habit-forming, but it has its constant users. It is said to produce a state of exhilaration in which time seems to move slowly...
...boom has a foundation. Through the islands, hemp and copra production is steeply up; canefields converted to rice and cotton during the war have been turned back to-more profitable sugar; refineries are going full blast; inter-island shipments are heavier than prewar...
...cost of the strike was incalculable. Such badly needed imports as copra, rubber, tin, tung oil, hemp, lead, wool, coffee, tallow and hides were cut off. Almost half a million men were out of work...
...Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen...