Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...JAVA-JAVA-Byron Steel-Knopf...
...Knopf ($2.50). With a keen sense for things past, Hergesheimer revives the life of early American cities, immortalizing forgotten airs and manners in a prose of intricate beauty. His leisurely preface regrets the noise and bustle that have superseded simplicity. That done, he reverts to the thrilling intensity of Java Head, and recounts in a series of story-sketches the drama within quiet cities. In Albany Angenietje defies the customs of a stodgy Dutch community by marrying a British ensign who had survived Ticonderoga. At Natchez a steamboat card sharp turned respectable, acquired a Southern gentleman's plantation, only...
...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...
...reminder that Chinese are now prospering hugely in immigrant colonies on the Malay Peninsula and in Borneo & Java was put forward, last week, by U. S. Methodist Bishop Titus Lowe, as he arrived in Paris from his bishopric in Singapore. Said he: "The Chinese have invaded Malaysia by thousands. Not only do they supply men for day labor but they run banks, steamship lines and other great business undertakings...
...Lindberghs. They want to fly one of "Uncle Tony's" ships. Anthony H. G. Fokker is the Dutch boy's model of greatness. He wants to make Holland an air power. Last week he made plans for regular service between Holland and the great Dutch Island of Java 9,000 miles away. Amsterdam is already linked with London, Paris, Berlin by daily air lines...