Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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WHITE CARGO-A shrewd theatrical deduction on what might happen if a white man became too lonely among the native maidens of sandy Africa...
...going even further afield. It was announced last week that he would go on a hunting expedition with the famed hunter Carl Akeley into the interior of Africa...
...expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...
WHITE CARGO- Close-up of a man's morals melting under the lonely suns of Africa...
...Firestone has not, however, remained idle. He has organized a mid-western group of important interests and has practically concluded negotiations for a large concession in Liberia, Africa, to locate new rubber plantations. Along with the concession, railways and roads would be built and the finances of the Liberian Government would be assisted for internal improvements. Liberia will, in fact, soon send a Loan Commission to Manhattan. Under the Liberian law, no white foreigner can own land-the result of a policy of "Africa for the Africans"-and the Firestone concession is said, therefore, to be based on a long...