Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practical Hollanders exploited the archipelago as one vast plantation, funneling its pepper, coffee, rubber, tin, oil and cinchona bark into world trade instead of their own, less voracious home market. They neither westernized nor Christianized the old (mainly Mohammedan) cultures. They did not get around to abolishing slavery until just before the U.S. did, gave the Indonesians no voice in government until this century...
...rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the former owners. On Java they granted independence to a "Republic of Indonesia." Its head: Dutch-educated Soekarno, 40, a longtime, long-winded nationalist orator...
Norton Simon climbed to his tin can throne by a simple formula: don't start a business yourself; buy up those already started and run them better. The son of a dry-goods merchant, Simon enrolled at the University of California when he was 17. He quit a few weeks later because he was making too much money-selling paper products and from investments in a small theater where he had put his profits-to waste his time in school. He went to work for a steel-products firm, quit to buy his first business, a steel jobbing plant...
...listeners will get none of this pathos in the American version which Bing Crosby recorded last week. Chappell got Tin Pan Alley's Jack (That's Win Darkies Were Born, Sleepy Lagoon) Lawrence to write these syrupy syllables...
Actually, WPB may be painting the picture blacker than it really is. Its dire predictions are based on the still unproved belief that there is little possibility of the U.S. getting tin from the rich mines of the Far East (Malaya, Burma, Siam, The Netherlands East Indies) for two years-the time it takes to build, ship and set up dredging machinery. Tin experts think that hidden stocks of tin and Jap machinery still may be found there...