Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: We are surprised to note in your issue of Feb. 29, p. 41, article captioned "Diamond Cut Diamond," which alleges a concession made by the South African Government to a Mr. I. W. Schlesinger to operate the diamond cutting plants in South Africa, and permission "to work diamonds in his extensive holdings in Namaqualand...
Last week Depression forced De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., to close its diamond mines. Chief unit of the South African diamond syndicate, De Beers closed with the understanding that other mines would follow. But a favorite child of South Africa's government is its diamond-cutting factory at Kimberley. On the heels of the first announcement came news that the government had contracted with I. W. Schlesinger to operate this factory and other smaller ones. Price charged by I. W. Schlesinger was permission to work diamonds in his extensive holdings in Namaqualand. Before the syndicate was the prospect...
...dollars in their pockets he bought a steerage ticket for England and slipped away to look for cannibals. Eventually he reached Johannesburg, spent several years grubbing for his board & bed. Finally he hit upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African Realty Trust, Ltd., sold suburban sites which later became parts of cities. To get the sites occupied he imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started a bus line. That paid too. Everything paid. He bought more land, planted it with fruits, sold it, collected...
...years," noted Hugh S. Spence of the Canadian Department of Mines, are two veins of pitchblende at Great Bear Lake, Canada. One gram of radium, worth about $70,000, is produced from six and a half to 13 tons of pitchblende. Canada expects to break the Belgium monopoly of African radium as soon as railroads and highways can be built to Great Bear Lake...
Beer Preferred. Soon after the airplane St. Didier passed the North African coast in an attempted speed flight from France to Madagascar its wireless called for help. Forced down somewhere in the vast Sahara, the flyers. Jean Reginensi, Robert Lenier, Joseph Touge, were unhurt but thirsty. Rescue planes began hunting, but the stranded flyers could not state their location. For three days the crew continued to flash piteous accounts of their increasing thirst. In return they received messages of love from their families, advice to burn their oil and even their plane as a signal to searchers. On the third...