Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After China, prophesies Price, comes inevitable Japanese domination of the Philippines, Siam, Dutch East Indies, Australia, New Zealand, the African west coast. Having enumerated his reasons why Japan cannot lose and the U. S. cannot win in the Orient, Author Price suggests that the U. S. "retire gracefully." His alternative suggestion is that the U. S. hereafter do business exclusively with Japan...
...quick to catch on about the law of supply and demand. In 1930 it occurred to them to do something about prices. Cocoa was so low on world markets that working on the farm didn't seem worth their while. In a few months much West African cocoa land was jungle again, and the price of cocoa went up. In 1936 there was slightly less rain than usual in the rainy season-what, for Equatorial Africa, amounted to a drought. Cocoa went up again. The natives, reflecting on the simplicity of economics, easily perceived that the less cocoa went...
...writers are not so ready to shoulder the phrase. In France it has become almost proverbial that the way to turn a French writer into a violent anti-imperialist and radical is to let him see Africa. In general, a good case could be made out to show that African natives now impress whites more than the other way round. Among three of the latest books on Africa, two might well add something to the case...
...Africa, a restrained, formalized book, which has little in common with her first book, Author Dinesen writes of the African landscape, its animals and people with the eye of a painter and a novelist: "The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all the world. There was no fat on it and no luxuriance anywhere; it was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent." The natives ("they were afraid of us more in the manner in which...
...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...