Straits Settlements
Americannoun
plural noun
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Up from lush Penang Island in the Straits Settlements last week climbed a four-motored Imperial Airways airplane.
From Time Magazine Archive
They range in time from 1860 to 1936, in place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Penang, Straits Settlements, bookmakers vengefully threatened to go on strike unless the police quit arresting them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Premier Stanley Baldwin had let it be known that the Stevenson Act restricting British rubber production in Malay states, Straits Settlements and Ceylon might become inoperative at some time after May 1.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best plan would probably be to make it an adjunct to the Straits Settlements, at the same time establishing a protectorate over Sarawak and Brunei.
From The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
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