Word: africa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the British tanker Africa Shell was sunk in the Mozambique Channel two miles off Portuguese East Africa by two bombs placed in her by an emaciated boarding party (wearing British lifebelts) from a German raider of some 10,000 tons, identified by Africa Shell's crew as the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer...
Acting as a decoy, Adolph Woermann ran down toward Capetown, last week scuttled herself when overhauled by a British patrol. Lighthouses were doused, radio to ships cut off, harbor restrictions applied all around the coast of the Union of South Africa, for fear of hungry Admiral Scheer, angry Windhuk...
...nothing that businessmen the world over fear and detest quite so much as war. ... I wish someone would run down the sources of the idea that businessmen are inclined to war. ... In recent years we have seen Japan's aggressions in Asia, and Italy's in Africa, and Hitler's. ... Is there anyone in his right mind who would suggest that these acts of violence . . . have been favored or promoted by business interests...
...these regulations have been lightly administered by genial, mountainous Director of Censorship Walter Scott Thompson. Born in England, Director Thompson was a newspaperman himself (as a correspondent for various London journals he covered assignments in South Africa, Australia, the South Sea Islands) before he went to Canada in 1911, became an official pressagent for the Dominion's railways, steamships, hotels. It was Walter Thompson who took charge of publicity for the Royal Visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth last spring...
...dense virgin jungle of Trinidad, was one of the zoologist's paradises which Author Sanderson, 30-year-old British zoologist, described last week in Caribbean Treasure. He found others in Haiti and Dutch Guiana. Readers of his best-selling Animal Treasure, an account of animal life in West Africa, know that Author Sanderson is no ordinary bug hunter. A distinguished scientist, a gifted artist (the animal illustrations in Caribbean Treasure are a part of its charm), Sanderson is considerably more entertaining about small animals and bugs than most writers are about lions and tigers...