Word: java
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...Ocean. The main island, with a population of 500, has been ruled more or less benevolently like a feudal fiefdom for the past 145 years by descendants of a Scottish sea captain named John Clunies-Ross. He settled in the coconut-growing islands in 1827, imported Malay workers from Java to harvest the copra for export, and in 1886 his grandson obtained a grant in perpetuity to the islands from Queen Victoria...
...other three areas: Java, northeastern Brazil and Central Luzon, breeding ground of the Philippines' Huk terrorists...
...even that close to production. Alcoa is prospecting for bauxite in west Kalimantan and north Sumatra; N.V. Billiton Maatschappij of The Netherlands for tin off the shores of Bangka and southwest Kalimantan; and a Kennecott Copper Corp. subsidiary for all kinds of minerals in West Irian, central Java and Sumatra...
...Indonesia's timber exports to $110 million last year, 70% over 1969, and expect to double that by 1973. Working with Pertamina, the state-owned oil monopoly, several foreign firms-including U.S.-owned Atlantic Richfield Co. and Union Oil Co.-recently began producing oil from wells in the Java Sea and adjacent waters. Already the major oil producer in the Far East, Indonesia expects to pump out 1,000,000 bbl. a day this year and 2,000,000 daily by the mid-1970s. That would about equal the present output in Iraq...
...Hart became the oldest admiral afloat when F.D.R. extended his tour of duty past the mandatory retirement age of 64. Convinced that war was imminent, Hart kept the principal warships based in Manila Bay out of the harbor, avoiding another Pearl Harbor. Forced to move his headquarters south to Java, Hart commanded the outnumbered Americans in the three-day battle of Makassar Strait, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese fleet. In 1945, Hart, a Republican, was appointed U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Instead of seeking election when the term expired two years later, he retired to spend his last decades...