Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular visitor to the Yard Bobby earned his keep yesterday with a fast game of craps. "African dominoes are right in my line," he told the CRIMSON in an exclusive interview...
...Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., which had made the drilling, nearly tripled in price on Johannesburg's stock exchange. Milne's paper profits were estimated at from $8 million to $20 million (TIME, June 27) on what was called the richest gold strike in South African history. But the boom collapsed when a police-supervised test showed that the ore was only a fraction as rich as the three previous tests had showed...
...South African government, which was preparing to try Milne on a charge of fraud after one of his companies was thrown into receivership, began investigating. Last week, after three months of digging into the affair, it explained why there had been such a difference in the samples. Said the government: "The gold content of each of three ore samples . . . had been fraudulently increased ... or . . . 'salted...
Despite Cripps's inveighings against "profiteering," Britons who had bought South African gold shares, in anticipation of devaluation, made whopping profits. Two thousand traders, shut out of the Stock Exchange, gathered outside the building on Throgmorton Street. For an hour the crowd was quiet. Then one trader made a bid-and the boom was on. Brokers, jobbers and clerks shouted orders. Clothes were torn and hats battered...
Gild a Gray, beaded shimmy-dancer of the nervous '203, who is suing Columbia Pictures for $1,000,000 for invading her right of privacy with the movie Gilda, said in defense of her specialty: "The shimmy was an original aboriginal dance. It was an African, a savage dance. I gave the public food for thought...