Word: teak
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...colonial heyday, Burma had been a joy and profit to the British Empire. It was rich in rice, teak, petroleum and jewels; its amiable people (according to one historian) "caused no governor-general a sleepless night." In 1942 the British awoke; as British troops retreated from Burma, the conquering Japanese made quick friends among Burmese politicians. In 1943, the British returned as liberators, but only to prepare a graceful exit...
...southeast coast. Paris estimated that in March and April, at least, 180 Frenchmen and 1,000 pro-French natives have been butchered by white-turbaned, spear-waving extremists of the Malagasy Renovation Party (M.D.R.M.). Despite French airborne reinforcements, the attacks still continued. Deputy Jules-Mathieu Castellani, a teak-faced Madagascar planter, recounted gruesome tortures...
...species of other plants. Roads, paths, bridges and dams on the stream flowing through the area have been constructed. Dr. Kevorkin and his superintendent are the only Americans now working at Soledad; the rest of the employees are Cubans. The Atkins Foundation was the first to introduce teak to Cuba and has succeeded in producing better strains of sugar cane through selection and breeding. A terrific hurricane in 1935 wreaked great damage to the trees in the Soledad Gardens but foresight in planting duplicate trees prevented excessive losses...
...single B-29 sitting on a runway in Europe, with a "mushroom bomb" in its belly, would be a more convincing show of force, at a fraction of the Navy's cost. They wanted to blast the Administration's foreign-policy makers off the Navy's teak decks and make them airborne...
...seized Formosa after their first war on China 50 years ago, ruthlessly exploited its land and people. Formosa made Japan the world's fourth sugar-producer; it yielded enough rice to feed all the Mikado's armies as well as coal and tin, gold, silver and copper; teak and camphor (70% of U.S. mothballs) and aromatic Oolong tea. At mountain-ringed Jitsu-Getsu-Tan-Lake of the Moon and Sun-the Japanese built the nucleus of a power system that put Formosa industrially ahead of the Philippines...