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For another fifty years, copra remained the main export of the islands. People who needed a little cash could always make a bag or two of copra. This copra storehouse in Chuuk still did a booming business in the 1960s. Twenty years later, when worldwide copra prices fell sharply, the industry all but died.
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(FSM Congress Library)