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...eight ships at a cost of $65.8 million (TIME, Aug. 9). But each saw a farther horizon. The board wanted the whole fleet modernized while American President was more immediately interested in getting a Government subsidy for operating over Trade Route 17 (Atlantic Coast through the Panama Canal to Malaya and Indonesia). Finally a bargain was struck. If American President would agree to replace its entire fleet over a ten-year period, the Maritime Board would subsidize American President's operations on Route...
...time the world's greatest exporter of sugar. Then came the gold rush; while it lasted, Brazil produced more than 40% of all the gold mined in the 18th century. The advent of the automotive age gave Brazil a great rubber boom, but Brazil now imports rubber from Malaya...
Just a few months after he resigned his post of Colonial Secretary in Sir Winston Churchill's Cabinet and was made a viscount, Oliver Lyttelton, 61, who laboriously helped to cope with the Mau Mau problem in Kenya and the Communist problem in Malaya, announced he had selected his new title: Viscount Chandos of Aldershot...
Enter Macintosh. At the dawn of the auto age, the company started its own rubber plantations in Malaya, bought textile mills to guarantee supplies of tire fabrics. But Dunlop expanded too fast, was caught in 1921's commodity collapse with a disastrously big inventory of rubber. The Du Cros regime was ousted. In went Sir Eric Geddes and Sir George Beharrell, a brilliant management team...
...which it says it will aim to build? Commander-in-Chief Chu Teh, in his Army Day speech last week, promised that Formosa will soon be liberated. The Labour leaders can read for themselves that under the new Peking constitution the millions of Chinese in Siam, Burma, Indonesia and Malaya, "neglected" by earlier governments, will now be "protected" by Mao Tse-tung's regime. This hardly squares with Chou En-lai's simultaneous protestations to the Burmese and Indian prime ministers about peaceful co-existence and noninterference...