Word: malayan
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...Brooklyn Phelps Dodge is already producing 100 tons a month. American Metal expects to follow it into production. Both companies deliberately put themselves under a handicap by using low-grade Bolivian ore rather than good Malayan ore, which may be cut off by the tin trust. This increases smelting costs so much that the U. S. State Department, which loves to promote trade with Latin America, has never helped it, believing it would be uneconomic...
...near-term difficulties and dangers. If the U. S. were to apply economic sanctions against Japan as an "aggressor" without first enlisting the cooperation of the 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...
Crossroads of Empire. All shipping from the Mediterranean and India to the Far East, all shipping from Britain to Australia must pass through the narrow Strait of Malacca, which was controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years...
...Rubber's stockholders early this month President Francis Breese Davis Jr. reported that their 76,563 acres of cultivated Sumatran and Malayan rubber trees last year yielded 42,185,000 Ib. of caoutchouc, earned $1,943,790 profit, twice the 1935 figure. More interesting to preferred stockholders, who have had no dividends for nine years* was the parent company's report. Net income for 1936 was $10,172,000, compared with 36,532,000 the year before. But the stockholders can hope for no dividends until U. S. Rubber Co.'s accumulated deficit is wiped out. Even...
...Malayan ruler was in London ostensibly to consult Harley Street specialists who had been warned not to recommend operations, an outrage to the Sultan's beliefs. Whitehall wiseacres, however, were saying last week that the real purpose of the visit was to unravel a diplomatic tangle, the succession to the throne of Selangor. Two years ago the Sultan's eldest son was deposed, and, in accordance with Malayan custom, the second son was nominated successor. To this the British Colonial Office objected, nominated the Sultan's third son. To this the Sultan objected, said: "The British Government...