Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor of the ancient rambling London Stock Exchange was bedlam all last week. Brokers shoved and shouted as the boom in West African gold stocks spread to other issues. Lights burned brightly in the City (financial district) until midnight as clerks toiled over books. Iron and steel shares were up on news that March steel production was 829,700 tons, highest since the October 1929 peak. Government securities soared in anticipation of this week's budget announcements. A speculator named K. H. Williams was reported to have made $2,500,000 in West Africans alone. London's financial...
...howling success. The University had given the National Students League permission to hold the meeting; it had not given such permission to the counter-demonstration. Therefore the University is utterly to blame for not instructing the Yard police to break up the clowning before it started. An assembly of African savages could not conceivably have misbehaved so badly as Friday's crowd of supposedly educated...
Died. Francis William Reitz, 89, onetime state Secretary of the South African Republic, author, in 1899, of an ultimatum to England which demanded its withdrawal from South African affairs and caused the Boer War; after long illness; in Capetown...
...will be used in aiding the survey which is being made of the heavens out to the distance of one hundred million light years under the supervision of Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and director of the Observatory. This task is being carried on at the South African Observatory and the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Massachusetts, and was started more than ten years...
Thus last week was delivered the world's fourth biggest diamond, the Jonkers, found by a poor South African prospector in January and immediately sold to Sir Ernest Oppenheimer for $312,000 (TIME, Jan.29...