Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...island of Bali, just east of Java, due south of Borneo, is owned by Holland but enjoys a rare domestic independence. The Dutch policy is Bali for the Balinese. With an extremely fertile soil, Bali raises and exports pigs, cattle, copra, coffee. Says Author Powell: the Balinese are furthermore the most artistic race in the world...
...think of Asia in terms of the machinery she uses as compared with the machinery we use," demanded R. J. Cromie, publisher of the Vancouver Sun. "Canada and the United States use about $23.60 worth of machinery per individual; England comes next with about $11. . . . In China, India and Java the amount of machinery would not run over 30 or 40 cents per individual...
...Three days behind the record of Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, Miss Johnson's 11,500-mi. flight in a little secondhand, patched-up airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite...
...field and taxied into a ditch. After two days lost in making repairs the girl pushed on through driving rains to Bangkok, 3,000 miles and four days from her goal. Yet perhaps the worst of the journey lay ahead of her: the perilous passage over Siam jungle and Java swamp, the 700-mi. water jump from the Indian Archipelago to Port Darwin...
...eight front-page column-tops were devoted to Indian riot and Burmese earth-quake.* No special foreign correspondents contributed these news stories; but spread across four of the column-tops was a stock photograph of a Burmese pagoda "visited by Van Lear Black on his flight to Batavia, Java...