Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring the coppermen of the world decided to curtail production to 20% of capacity, Roan Antelope meekly agreed to a quota of 23,000 tons. Last week when the coppermen were meeting in Manhattan to renew their pact, Roan Antelope's representatives arrived bristling with demands and challenges. African copper has long been considered a potential threat to the copper supremacy of the U. S. Roan Antelope's attitude last week transformed the threat into appalling reality. The demands were made at first through Dr. Otto Sussman, engineer president of American Metal Co. which has invested some...
Alfred Chester Beatty was one of the first capitalists to see the future of African copper. He was a major stockholder in Roan Antelope when it was formed in 1927 and created its 1928 alliance with American Metal. He was behind the launching of Rhodesian Selection Trust, which owns other Rhodesian mines. Under his guidance Roan grew quickly. It took properties that cost it $1,700,000 (most of the land is leased from British South Africa Co.) and spent $23,000,000 in making a mining business out of it. Mills and smelters were constructed, a village laid...
...General had been German Chancellor up to last week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's Finger." Last week the Chancellorship fell like a ripe pippin into the calmly outstretched hand of swank, sardonic, intriguing Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher who is a full general...
Shrewd, the Herr Doktor has written not about zoos but about East Africa (the once German colony which the Fatherland hopes to regain), has sandwiched into his Christmas book phonograph records full of the beat of East African drums, the jabber of natives, the roars, yelps and grunts of East African beasts...
...SOUTH AFRICAN VERSE, THE CENTENARY BOOK...