Word: malays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curtailment of British rubber production by Parliament under the Stevenson Act. Theoretically this measure was expected to intensify the demand for rubber and consequently raise its price by curtailing the supply. The actual results have been so unsatisfactory that last week a leading British newspaper in Malaya, The Malay Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded today as on trial for its life, and unless tangible results are achieved in bringing supply closer to consumption in the near future, the ranks of those prepared to scrap the scheme and give the law of supply and demand free sway...
Mines, mining, and matters connected thereto, filled the years frim 1902 to 1914 and took him around the world and back. Like the index of an atlas reads the list of countries in which he lived and worked during these years: Australia, Belgium, Borneo, Burma, Canada, China, Italy, Korea, Malay, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia, and South Africa...
...reminder that Chinese are now prospering hugely in immigrant colonies on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo & Java was put forward, last week, by U. S. Methodist Bishop Titus Lowe, as he arrived in Paris from his bishopric in Singapore. Said he: "The Chinese have invaded Malaysia by thousands. Not only do they supply men for day labor but they run banks, steamship lines and other great business undertakings...
...contracts* for $13,500 in 4½ days. A Rubber Exchange seat was sold for a new high record: $6,600. A cablegram from London was responsible for the crash. Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after...
Professor Roorbach has just returned from a year in the Far East, where he studied economic conditions in Japan, China, the Dutch East Indies, the Malay States, Siam, India, and the Philippines. The year's work, which he has just completed, was sponsored by the Harvard Bureau of International Research, and the Business School...