Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congo Beige, Africa...
...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...
Already there are large amounts of U. S. capital invested in Africa, principally in the Katanga copper mines and the new Congo diamond fields. Yet for several years the shares of the Rand gold mines and the De Beers diamond mines have been listed in the New York Stock Exchange...
Down the Champs Elysees, to ihe profound astonishment of Parisiens, came M. le capitaine et Mme. Delingette, in a chugging six-wheel automobile, "bespattered with sand from the Sahara Desert, clay from the Niger, black earth from the Congo and yellow mud and sand from the South African veldt...
With the development of diamond output in the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Angola, however, this practice of stabilizing diamond prices became more and more difficult for the British interests to maintain. Additional trouble has resulted from social and political changes during and after the War in Europe, whereby many previously wealthy families have had their jewels confiscated or have been forced to sell them because of sudden poverty. Against these conditions a Londor syndicate has been struggling hard but with only partial success...