Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans said their subs had not only sunk the Ark, but had damaged the Malaya, back from a three-month convalescence in Brooklyn Navy Yard...
Battleships: Warspite, Malaya, Resolution, Rodney...
More potent perhaps than the Raja's intentions in effecting the change was the will of the British Empire. Oil-rich, rubber-bearing, strategically-placed Sarawak as an air base can menace Thailand, the Philippines, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies. It is far too important on the map of the South Seas today for comic opera...
...dewy youth passed and Alfred approached 60, he began thinking of foreign parts again. In the early '90s he went to Malaya to edit a paper, moved on to Japan to become European editor of Tokyo's Japan Times. In 1899, just after the beginning of Philippine-U.S. hostilities, Alfred arrived in Manila. Filipinos arrested the ambitious newshawk of 71 as a spy, left him bound and stripped in the jungle to be slowly devoured by flies. U.S. troops rescued him. Later he went to the U.S., worked on a San Francisco paper...
...normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export as much as 6,000,000 tons among them to such countries as India, Malaya, Cuba, France...