Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taiwan (after the island's Asiatic name) Development Co. rigidly controlled industry and trade, brought half a million Japanese to live among six million Formosans (chiefly Chinese who have pushed the Malayan headhunters into the mountains...
...nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor Government tried to straighten the threads, its fingers caught in the old, hard knots. Last week autocratic sultans and old-line Tories alike were denouncing the British Government for high-handed imperialism in Malaya. British efforts to increase Malayan self-government had resulted in a terrible tangle...
Once upon a time there was a lean, dark-brown Malayan and his name was Charles Thamboe. When he was a little boy the British taught him to speak beautiful English and later gave him a lovely job as a radio broadcaster. And then wasn't he grand...
...presumably had not penetrated Jap censorship, native growers hopefully asked as high as $2 a lb. for their small stocks of natural rubber. With an estimated 20,000 tons of rubber believed stored near Singapore, the growers were stunned last week when British authorities set the price at 36 Malayan cents a lb. (about 17¼? in U.S. currency). At this price the growers were in no hurry to sell the rubber they had furtively hoarded and hidden from the Japs...
...Sultan of Johore, bearing a personal grudge against the Jap invaders of his Malayan state-they had not only maltreated his subjects but had swiped five of his automobiles and one of his polo-field rollers-recalled one thoroughly satisfactory incident: Field Marshal Terauchi had made him a present of a loaf of bread, but the Sultan simply smelled it-in the Marshal's presence-and told a manservant to throw it away...