Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wadding, loaded a Revolutionary Brown Bess flintlock. At 7:30 a. m., hour when the Concord skirmish began, Governor Ely nervously pulled the trigger. It clicked inef⅛fectively-an official fired a revolver. In ⅛ of a second the sound was flashed to Kootwijk, Holland, relayed to Bandung, Java, thence to Sydney, Australia and back to Schenectady...
...Oldoway is not older than the Piltdown. Java and Peking men, at least he is complete, whereas they are but scraps. If Oldoway is genuinely pleistocene, anthropologists are not much surprised at the persistence of similar people in northeast Africa today. The Bushmen of Australia, the Ainus of Japan and the Dravidians of India have survived from a stock almost as remote...
World Control. The extreme difficulty of world control of commodity production was painfully apparent last week to sugar and rubber growers. In Paris the International Sugar Conference admitted that differences between Cuba and Java have as good as wrecked the famed Chadbourne Plan (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). After a five-month attempt, the British and Dutch Governments last week conceded that their attempts to regulate rubber production were futile...
...Wharton School graduated William Samuel Paley with a B. S. in economics in 1922. His father took him into the family cigar business. Bill Paley knew something about Congress Cigar Co. and about cigars. As a boy he had watched girls on high stools rolling rough tobacco into Java wrappers, shaping them, cutting off the ends. At 18, just out of the University of Chicago, where he spent one year, he had gone into his father's Philadelphia factory, had broken up a strike by taking these girls out to lunch. Still, he did not think much...
...Java and Cuba together at the beginning of the new crop will have on hand sugar to produce which cost them more than $116,000,000. If that sugar could be sold at present prices it would yield only $72,000,000, a loss of at least $44,000,000. If this same sugar were to be dumped on the present saturated markets, there would be such demoralization in prices that the greater part of the whole of this huge cost-investment would be lost...