Word: indonesian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dutch do not despair, but they know that unless the German and Indonesian trades are restored or replaced, the fate of Hoorn may become the fate of the whole nation. The symbol of Dutch confidence is Juliana...
...Loon, three-dimensional pictures, the "everlasting match" (TIME, Oct. 13). Last winter he quit his $150,00b-a-year job as executive vice president of Universal-International Pictures to make side bets his life work. One of them turned out to be a new main chance: the Indonesian Republican government heeded $80,000 fast, and Matty Fox thought he could arrange it. He did. Then he, got down to cases...
...Indonesian archipelago looked to Matty as if it would soon gain its Independence from the Dutch. What the budding republic needed, he decided, was a man like Matty Fox to brace up its economy. The Indonesians, who thought themselves friendless, were enthusiastic...
Plenty of Stockpile. By last week the enthusiasm had bloomed into the American-Indonesian Corp. Its guiding spirit, needless to say, is Matty Fox, who holds 51% of the corporation's voting stock. He will do all the Indonesian government's bulk buying & selling in the U.S. and will try to find U.S. risk capital to build up the islands' mines and industries. Says Dr. Soemitro Djojoadikoesoemo, Indonesian trade commissioner to the U.S. who negotiated the deal: "We need U.S. capital and skill ... We like Matty...
...against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.'s crown was fading fast...