Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Other debtors: Russia, Italy, Yugo-Slavia, Poland, Rumania, Portugal, Greece, Belgian Congo. Total debts: about...
Before the War, Mangin saw service in Senegal, the French Sudan, the Congo (Fashoda) under Colonel Marchand, in Tonkin, West Africa and Morocco, gradually rising to the rank of Brigadier General...
...most important river in Europe, although it is 675 miles shorter than the Volga. It is the 23rd longest river in the world. Others before it: Amazon (4,000). Nile (3,600), Yangtse (3,400), Yenisei (3,300), Mississippi (3,160), Missouri (3,000), Lena (3,000), Congo (3,000), Niger (3,000), Obi (2,700), Hoangho (2,600), Amur (2,500), Parana (2,450), Volga (2,400), Mackenzie (2,300), La Plata (2,300), Yukon (2,000), Madeira (2,000), Arkansas (2,000), Rio del Norte (1,800), St. Lawrence (1,800), Sao Francisco...
...mines are situated in the district of Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, 1,700 miles from a sea port. Shipments are made via the Benguella Railway and Lobito Bay to Europe. Already a concentrator and electrolytic refinery and a battery of coke-ovens have been provided to work the ores extracted; while a hydro-electric plant and a leaching plant are shortly to be added...
Herbert Ward was a wanderer in the heart of the Congo jungles. As he went, he collected things-anything that reflected the life and thought of primitive races. There were queer barbaric ornaments; shining, murderous weapons; primitive carvings. Also, he saw strange sights, saw battle and death, saw human beings stripped to aboriginal essentials of life and passion. For his own amusement, he liked to take a stub of pencil and stray sheet of paper and sketch roughly the things that interested...