Word: africa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the use of electricity is nearly universal, it stands as a national disgrace." The writer is evidently misinformed. America leads in farm electrification as it does in all fields of electrification. . . . In percentage of farm electrification it must be compared with areas like Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, Russia or China, and it far exceeds any of these areas in farm electrification. If small countries of dense population, such as Holland, Denmark, Japan, etc. are to be considered, they should reasonably be compared with small areas of the U. S. with somewhat comparable density of population. . . . Farm electrification...
...South Africa is the Empire's most distant fragment sentimentally. Jan Christiaan Smuts, Minister of Justice and hero of World War I, cautioned South Africans to discuss World War II as little as possible because they "are living far away and are not conversant with the facts." No official word was yet forthcoming from South Africa's boss, Prime Minister Hertzog. Possibly none could be expected until the guns began to shoot...
...take up literature and politics. Informing the voters of Oldham, he was rejected. He promptly left for the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. Captured, while defending an armored train derailed by a Boer attack, he was arrested by big, beefy Louis Botha, later Prime Minister of South Africa, locked up at Pretoria. After weeks of reading Carlyle and John Stuart Mill, in desperation he scaled the prison wall and escaped. Back at Oldham for another election...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $2000,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and her giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Bleemfentein, South Africa, lies in the bands of seven...
...Dunkwa, 90 miles southwest of Miami. Nobody waited to ask questions. Coast Guard cutters sped to sea, searched the calm Atlantic for miles around the given position. But no shipwreck could be found. Meantime, shipping experts ashore who knew the Dunkwa's, regular run, from Europe to West Africa, began to wonder how she came so tar off her course. Then, while the S O S's continued to crackle in, Lloyd's reported the Dunkwa safe in port at Rotterdam...