Word: thailander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroyed" Japan's newsprint and grey cotton sheetings exports throughout Southeast Asia, now threatened to undermine Japan's markets in soybean oil, cement, structural steel, window glass. In Jakarta, Indonesians were snapping up Chinese yarn at $390 a bale, $25 cheaper than Japan's yarn. In Thailand, Japanese cotton piece goods had been virtually driven from the market by Chinese prices, which were as much as 15% lower. Other Red bestsellers: bicycles, sewing machines and scented cotton prints. Even in strictly anti-Communist South Viet Nam, where border guards check all cars and passengers to block entry...
...best daily newspaper in Thailand is edited by a wiry, wearily patient American named Darrell Berrigan. An expatriate newsman and longtime resident of Bangkok. Berrigan got his newspaper last year through an orientally inscrutable tactic-he wrote a magazine article charging that Thailand's chief cop, General Phao Sriyanond, was also Thailand's biggest opium smuggler. General Phao was impressed. With characteristic Thai logic, he apparently reasoned that any newsman intimate enough with the country's boatmen, taxi drivers, prostitutes and businessmen to put together such a report would make an ideal editor. Phao hired Berrigan...
...jungle fastnesses of Southeast Asia, Laos has no telephone communication with the outside world; telegraph messages tend to run as late as 48 hours; the U.S. aid mission in the capital city of Vientiane (pop. 25,000) has a radiotelephone link with the U.S. aid mission in Bangkok, Thailand, but during the monsoon season, as now, messages are static-ridden and fragmentary...
...Luncheon in Memorial Hall at which time the annual Radcliffe Alumnae Citations were awarded. Mrs. Bernice Brown Cronkhite '16, Dean of the Graduate School was presented with the Alumnae Achievement Award, and Mrs. Amborn Jayapani Meesook, Director of the Educational Information Division in the Ministry of Education of Thailand, received the twelfth Graduate Chapter Medal. Both educators hold M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Radcliffe...
Pakistan has lost considerable ground because of a sharp fall in cotton (23% of its exports) prices and drop in the volume of its jute (44% of exports) trade. Indonesia is sorely pressed by a 20% drop in crude rubber prices since 1956; so is Thailand. Malayan tin exports are off 50% this year, and 25% of the tin mines are shut down. From a healthy budget surplus in 1956, Malaya has gradually slipped into a $39 million deficit this year...