Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real material is a different kind of love -the instinct, probably more impressive than any other human trait, that keeps the tribe marching toward life, fighting the jungle in the days when the river dries up, when the game gives out. The photography is repetitious of other African researches, but lively, imaginative. Best shot: a tribesman running through a burning forest, carrying the dead body of his chief...
...African copper has been rapidly changing from a shadowy threat to a solid giant looming on the horizon. In 1916 the copper mines of Africa yielded 43,876 tons mined at high cost by inefficient natives. By 1923 the figure had risen to 80,410 short tons. Last year's production is estimated to have reached 142,599 tons. During this time modern machinery has supplanted hand labor to a great extent, railroads have been built. Now for the first time, African copper is a subject in all conversations regarding the metal's future...
While U. S. Producers were conferring with M. Pisart last week, executives of African copper companies were gathering in London. A major topic was coöperation in smelting. Katanga (Union Miniere Haut Katanga) is now the only African Company with smelting facilities but Roan Antelope is building a smelter, and three other companies (N'Kana, N'Changa Mufalira) expect to follow...
Although U. S. capital is thought to own around 35% of African copper producing companies, the control is definitely European. It will be increasingly difficult for a group in Manhattan to set prices unless those prices are maintained by African companies. While the Manhattan meeting of last week was taking place, M. Pisart might well have noticed with interest that Chile Copper Co., Anaconda-controlled, reduced its dividend from $3.50 to $3, thereby reduced Anaconda's income by $2,000,000; that practically all copper stocks touched new lows on the Exchange; that independent speculators were said...
Virtue's Bed. An attractive girl, described by her friends as intelligent, is shanghaied into a North African sporting house. Stating repeatedly that the doors of hell swing both ways, she deserts her profession on receiving an inheritance and an English estate. In England she takes up the life of a country dowager...