Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Manila, Bangkok (and a visit to King Prajadhipok), and west via the Arabian Sea and the Suez Canal. In some of the islands Julius Fleischmann will act as a special representative of the U. S. Department of Commerce, drumming up trade and setting an example of usefulness to other...
...board the 20,000 ton steamship "Resolute", which the students re-join at Naples. Classes meet daily at sea in special rooms and on deck. During this semester students visit Greece, Palestine, Egypt, French Somaliland in East Africa, India, Ceylon, Prince of Wales Island, Malaya, Siam, the Straits Settlements, Java, Bali, Sulu, the Philippines, Formosa, China, Korea, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, California, Panama, and Cuba...
While representatives of 35 countries talked & talked on a dozen world economic problems in Washington last week (see above), representatives of seven countries sat down in Brussels and did something tangible about one problem. World Sugar. Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Belgium, Hungary, Java, Cuba signed and put into effect the Chadbourne Plan to limit production and export of sugar, restore sugar prices to a profitable basis (TIME...
...Java of course is the chief Dutch possession, and Batavia is the capital of Vice-regal Governor General Jonkheer A. C. De Graeff (he recently visited the U. S. unnoticed). But on the Pittsburgh's route Sumatra came before Java and the Davises first landed on Dutch soil at the port for Medan...
Goodyear Rubber Corp. was waiting and Goodyear local managers Messrs. Hargess and Ingle must have had a lot to say to the Governor General of the Philippine Islands?whether or not they dared to say it. Goodyear would much prefer to have plantations in the Philippines, rather than in Java; but there is a reason, and it may as well be called U. S. colonial stupidity...