Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...death of Marshall Field interrupted the Field Museum's projects and Akeley was engaged by the American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. Again he procured elephants and other African fauna, narrowly escaping with his life when a bull elephant gored him and kneeled on his chest and head (his wife rescued him, mulilated); when, his rifle empty, he had to throttle a wounded 80-pound leopard; when he contracted "Black Water," vilest of tropic fevers. Gorillas were the subject of his latest studies, pursued in the gorilla sanctuary he had been instrumental in having set aside by Belgium...
Serving the Emergency Fleet Corp. as consulting engineer, he invented the cement gun. For his African field work he invented a cinema camera. In 1924 he caused a ripple in sculpture and religious circles with his bronze, The Chrysalis, allegorizing mankind's evolution, from the ape. He married twice: Delia T. Donning of Beaver Dam, Wis., who divorced him in 1923; Mary Lee Jobe, mountaineer, of Manhattan, who was with...
...moment when her husband was bidding at Christie's. But why did the "Golden Dawn" go under the hammer at only ?4,950 ($24,057)? The price of diamonds has long been relative not to their actual rarity but to the artificial scarcity created by the South African Diamond Trust, often cited by economists as a favorite example of the "perfect monopoly...
...artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers! ... If this continues a collapse in the industry which provides the South African Government with ?3,000,000 in taxes annually is sure to come, and the country will have to provide for thousands of starving diamond workers whom we now employ...
...South African and South American tour (TIME, March 23 to Oct. 26, 1925) he one evening unexpectedly sauntered with his ukelele on his arm into the saloon car occupied by South African newsgatherers. "In five minutes he had the whole crowd going at the top of its form. It was like a scene in the anteroom of an officers' mess after dinner on guest-night with the senior subaltern as master of ceremonies. Every eye was on the Prince, every face smiling, some with sheer de light, others with wonder...