Word: levante
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Their coal tar red wrecked the business of Levant farmers who had been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...
...Reorganization of the Levant Trade," Professor Usher, Widener...
Zaharoff. In 1850 a Greek woman gave birth to a son by a Russian father. The boy made his way out of the Levant by means best known to himself, picked up ten languages here and there, picked up tips as a waiter in one of the great hotels at Zurich, picked up an education of sorts in England, became interested in the munitions industry, and made the acquaintance of a certain influential Spanish lady...
...Greeks, most of whom are Levantines or Levant traders of a low order, have for long been the backbone of Turkish commerce. Having done much for Turkey in this respect, they naturally think they are justified in maintaining their right to trade in Constantinople...
...Foreign Minister, Lord Curzon. The Labor Government submitted the Treaty as a matter of routine in maintaining continuity of foreign policy. The Liberals, led by Sir Edward Grigg, onetime private secretary of Lloyd George, whose rapid anti-Turk policy led to the ruin of British imperial ambitions in the Levant, denounced the Treaty. Sir Edward made the usual plea for Christian minorities. His argument that the Treaty was repugnant to the British Dominions was sunk without a trace when Ramsay MacDonald informed the House that all the Dominion Governments had consented to ratification...