Word: collection
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Governor of the Belgian Congo was recently ordered by the Home Government to collect an "income tax" of 20 francs a head from the natives of the Congo. The task looked impossible. But the Governor is resourceful. According to reports he directed the natives to capture and bring in rare butterflies especially the kind called Urania. He gives them a tax receipt and then retails the insects for about 30 francs apiece to collectors in Europe...
Britain, with an original War debt to the U. S. of $4,604,128,085 (now several millions greater because of interest), said in 1922 through Lord Balfour that she would collect from her Continental debtors (including Germany) a sum equal to her own War debt to the U. S. This was another way of telling...
Europe that Britain "is willing to cancel all War debts, but, since the U. S. will not join us, we are obliged to collect enough to meet our American obligations...
...expedition will start early next year. Mr. Akeley is going, not for mere sport as some hunters go, but to collect museum specimens. He will sail for Africa before the New Year. In March the remainder of the party-including Mr. Eastman-will follow. They will start from Mombasa and travel into the hinterland 24 hours by rail to Nairobi. Six months will be spent in the great game country, where Theodore Roosevelt hunted elephants, hippopotami, rhinoceri, lions, leopards, zebras, giraffes, antelopes and gazelles in 1909. This is Mr. Akeley's fifth trip to the same region. Guns, cameras...
...Britain's debtors are: Russia, France, Italy, Yugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Belgium. The total amount is about $10,000,000,000, but Britain is seeking only to collect $300,000,000 as a final settlement...