Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success in Singapore. Instantly, he set to work again-and this time, his eye fell on the ancient island of Singapore. Centuries earlier, a flourishing city had stood there, but it had become merely a negligible appendage to the Malayan Sultanate of Johore. Where Singapore city now stands were "four or five little huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade...
...figured out. The supply of crude rubber, the Committee thought, would not stretch enough to meet demand for a year or two. To prevent prices from soaring, the price of crude was pegged at 23½ ? a lb., f.o.b. Far Eastern ports. The British Government agreed to buy all Malayan rubber offered at this price. But by last week the pegged price meant little. So much rubber was pouring into Malayan ports that the price was dropping...
...child got from Malayan waters to Guadalcanal? The most reasonable explanation was that she had been rescued from the wreckage by Japanese and taken by their camp women to the distant Solomon Islands. But mothers the world over believe in miracles, and Mrs. Li had no need for reasonable explanations...
...Threat. Many Bolivian regimes (Villarroel's was an exception) have been in the pay of the tin barons. Until Bolivia's economy is broadened or until cheaper Malayan production knocks high-cost Bolivian tin for a loop, tin rule will be a threat...
Spiritually, the U.S. seemed to have added little but jazz, a love of fast cars, slang and zoot suits upon the Spanish, Malayan, Chinese, Mohammedan and native cultures already oppressing the passive and indolent Filipinos. Politically, Destiny had been more successful. The Philippine Government was a textbook democracy...