Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plantation rubber from the British and Dutch possessions in the Far East broke Brazil's virtual rubber monopoly and burst her rubber boom in 1910. Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on...
The last and continuing Brazilian boom crop is coffee. Some 15,000,000 132-lb. bags are exported yearly, over 7,000,000 to the U. S., and a mere 20,000 to the tea-addicted British Isles. Seventy per cent of Brazilian exports consist of coffee. So long as...
The Japanese are not very good baseball players. However hard they try, there is some gymnastic constraint in little yellow Japanese frames which makes it impossible for them to throw and catch without an awkwardness. They are at their best in running and sliding between bases; their feet are quick...
The Japanese are ardent sports; they play hard and they idolize those who play any game better than they. Thus Gehrig, Tilden, Tunney, Ruth are far greater names to them than that of Tsunenohana, their champion wrestler. Japanese baseball addicts possess a faculty which U.S. fans in some measure lack...
For south of the Mexican border, Latin American telephone systems are now on a par with the U.S. systems of 30 years ago. Some of their equipment actually dates from that period. Important cities have no direct links; rural telephones scarcely exist. Around each densely settled community is spun a...