Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was gold near Rhodes' diamonds, over in the Transvaal. The Dutch were there first, but Rhodes went in with them. Soon he controlled a huge combination ? De Beers Mining Co., British South Africa Co. and Gold Fields of South Africa Co. He became Prime Minister of the Cape Town Colony, which he governed as a benevolent despot, even strengthening the British grip on lower Africa with a vision in his head of "Africa British, from Cape Town to Cairo...
...Premier of the neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape Town to die, to build into the empire the colony that bears his name...
...Flood control on the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; construction of navigable waterways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; agreement with Canada on the St. Lawrence waterway; development of the Mississippi Basin; Federal purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...
...performed greater marvels in restoring the chaos of the seventies. Now that Egypt has surrendered to the British demands, both London and Paris newspapers predict a restoration of the protectorate. To haunt the British mind anew, the ghost of Cecil Rhodes has been seen in Downing Street with the Cape-to-Cairo project under...
...Court gave Secretary Wilbur four days to show cause why the injunction should not be granted. Meanwhile, preparations went forward for sinking the Washington off Cape Charles, Va., without any marks of perturbation on the part of the Navy Department. The plans called for planting bombs in the water around the ship and exploding them in imitation of airplane attack to see just how well modern armament could withstand such shocks. After several days of such tests, scientifically conducted, if the Washington were not yet sunk, the battleship Texas would be at hand to use her for target practice...