Search Details

Word: capetown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

When the Federal Council asked Dr. Jones to reawaken U. S. Protestantism, that good man retreated to the Himalayas. There in mountain solitude he studied, prayed, meditated for three months. This summer he emerged, proceeded to Capetown, Johannesburg and other South African communities, arrived fortnight ago at Beaver College at Jenkintown, Pa. There with other members of the National Preaching Mission Dr. Jones prayed, played, planned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preaching Team | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...paper the dairyman read that the Department of Commerce had just announced the discovery by a German of a new method of keeping milk for a long time without refrigeration. By sealing the containers with oxygen, a shipment of fresh milk from Rotterdam to Capetown and back was found after 60 days' travel to be "unchanged in taste, nourishing qualities or chemical consistency." Plain was the possibility of future importations of fresh milk from Europe or South America by this method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hold Your Milk! | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Died. Sir Lionel Phillips, 81, South African gold miner, longtime head of Rand Mines, Ltd.; in Capetown, Union of South Africa. In 1896 he and the late John Hays Hammond were condemned to death for complicity in the abortive Jameson Raid, freed after paying fines of $125,000 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 13, 1936 | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...this case "east" meant nearly everything from Egypt to California, from Palestine to Capetown, including Australia and New Zealand. Texaco at present has no commercial production outside the U. S., though foreign business accounts for about 20% of its total sales. California Standard has no retail marketing system "east of Suez." But on the island of Bahrein in the Persian Gulf it does have a great potential supply of crude (see p. 21). Development was started in 1931 and a big refinery is under construction. Yet last year California Standard was able to sell only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: East of Suez | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

Oswald Pirow was authoritatively said to want: 1) surrender by Britain to South Africa of the so-called "native protectorates" in the dominion to make its sovereignty complete; 2) Britain to pay the enormous cost of establishing near Capetown a naval base ranking with $150,000,000 Singapore, but South Africa to retain full sovereignty over the territory of the base; 3) Great Britain to recognize explicitly that South Africa is not bound to participate in a war entered by the Mother Country; 4) mutual agreement between Mother and Daughter that if, as South Africa anticipates, the Government of Portugal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New British Strategy | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next