Word: sumatra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clear in northwestern Sumatra and partly cloudy in the neck of the Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta...
Married. Charles Stewart Mott, 54, of Flint, Mich., vice president of General Motors Corp., three times Mayor of Flint, twice a widower; and Mrs. Dee Van Balkon Fuery, 29, of Detroit, Sumatra-born, Paris-educated editor of Bridle and Golfer, Detroit smart-chart; in Toledo, Ohio...
Around to the other side of the world, in Sumatra, 29 men and women affected with leprosy attacked their guards last week with claws and teeth and horrid touch. The guards drew their pistols and killed ten of the lepers, wounded four others. The others ran back to their pens, gibbering and screaming...
...been raising madder plants for madder red. A similar misfortune befell the indigo plant cultivators of India. In New Zealand kauri gum diggers are becoming impoverished. Chile, once boastful of its natural nitrate monopoly is humble. Synthetic rubber is a fact, although heretofore more expensive than Malaya and Sumatra natural rubber...
...quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were not yet producing the oil that later the Royal Dutch-Shell was to control. First oil of the region was discovered at Sumatra in the late 1880's; the Royal Dutch Co. (the Dutch royal family are important stockholders) was incorporated...