Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four great sugar bowls of the world are the U. S., Cuba, Java, Europe. Last week representatives of these bowls were striving to halt the great stream of production which has filled their bowls to overflowing, has taken sweet profit out of the industry...
...Dutch transplanted cinchona trees to Java in 1854, now produce about 95% of the world's quinine. The British, from transplants to India, produce most of the rest. The Soviets, to economize on quinine, forbid its use as an appetizer, abortifacient or anything but a malaria antidote...
...Victor Bruce was loafing along in easy jumps. Flight Lieut. C. W. Hill, another Australian, flew his Moth into Surabaya, Java two days ahead of Hinkler's schedule. But there Kingsford-Smith, who left England four days behind, was close on his tail. The two were nearly even for the last hazardous lap across the Timor Sea. Then Lieut. Hill was forced down on the Island of Timor and, in trying to take off again, his plane overturned. The Southern Cross Jr., sweeping past Timor in an attempted nonstop dash to Port Darwin, ran into headwinds and was also...
Siam's King Prajadhipok announced that he and curvesome Queen Rambai will sail incognito to the U. S. next spring for removal of a four-year-old cataract from one of His Majesty's eyes. Dr. E. H. van Hasselt, noted Dutch oculist now in Java, was rushed recently from there by airplane to Bangkok, recommended that the Royal eye be knifed at "a famous American clinic" not named last week in despatches (probably Johns Hopkins...
...Congress delegates, 45 were from the Hawaiian Islands (where Orientals outnumber Occidentals 4 to i), 38 from Japan, eleven from the U. S., four from China, three from Korea, two from Canada, two from India, one from Siam, one from Java...