Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...
...after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...
...trademark flourished. Every cowboy, fake and real, from Buffalo Bill to the Lone Ranger, wore a Stetson. After the Boer War, famed General R. S. S. Baden-Powell ordered 10,000 Stetsons for his South African police, setting the style for thousands of police and military institutions to follow (including Canada's Mounties, the Texas Rangers, Fiorello LaGuardia). The Oxford English Dictionary picked up the name Stetson as a synonym...
...produced over 400 million ounces of gold in the past half century. But while American businessmen were permitted to admire the bonanza, and even to purchase British gold stocks, they were always denied any substantial holdings. The Dark Continent's gold mining was strictly a British-South African show, no uitlanders wanted...
...profits of this first big beachhead of U.S. capital in Africa looked good. After every South African gold strike there has been an overall industrial boom. If it comes out of the workings of the Orange Free State field American Anglo-Transvaal, through its option to participate in any of Anglo-Transvaal's operations, will be in on the ground floor...