Word: java
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British fleet and fortified Singapore Base, it would probably find itself hard put to it to keep its trade lanes open to the Malayan Archipelago, whence comes most U. S. rubber and tin. The Japanese might be provoked to raids on American shipping in the Celebes and Java seas and would probably attack the Philippines. In the event of a war along 1914-18 lines in Europe, there would be little sense in applying sanctions against Germany, which is effectively cut off from U. S. markets by British control...
...first white child raised in Netherlands New Guinea, he began his jungle jaunts at five, and while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought back a passel of tales which raise the hair and eyebrows as high as any published since William Seabrook...
...Netherlands, where De Bilt Observatory labels any temperature above 88° as "tropical," the thermometer registered 93°. At The Hague, retired Dutch colonials got out their old tropical outfits, relics of Java days; schools were closed afternoons, and young boys stripped and dived into the city's canals to cool off. The Hague used 50% more water than usual...
...could pull away from any pursuit ship then in the air at a top speed of 250 miles an hour. The U. S. Army took 151 of them, the Argentine 35, The Netherlands 117. The last of the Netherlands order is being set up for flight this week in Java. Altogether 340 B-10s rolled out through the factory doors, to be flown to nearby purchasers, or to be packed in crates for overseas shipment. They were so far ahead of bombers of the day that they won Builder Martin the Collier Trophy...
...deTerra has conducted expeditions to India, Kashmir, and Burma. His latest expedition, in 1937-38, was carried on under the auspices of the Peabody Museum and the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, and led via India and Upper Burma to Java...