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Uranium Source. The Atomic Energy Commission announced that it has a number of plants at work and abuilding to get uranium as a byproduct from plants in Florida which are now making phosphate fertilizer. Most of AEC's uranium now comes from the Congo, Canada and Colorado...
...Africa fan from boyhood, Artist Adrian painted many an imaginary African scene before he ever laid eyes on the continent. In 1949 he and his wife took a motor trip through the Sudan, Kenya and the Belgian Congo, "to see if my African dream were true." Bumping over 4,000 miles of trails, he decided that he had been right in the main. But he picked up a lot of new ideas. At home, working from notes and memory, he turned out the current show's canvases in a year and a half...
Slimmed down after a nine-week diet of "baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky" while filming The African Queen in the Belgian Congo, Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, with his wife Lauren Bacall and 2½-year-old son Stephen, arrived in Manhattan. Said Bogie: "Africa is a good place to stay away from, but I suppose that statement will burn up all the Africans." Before leaving for Hollywood, he went to a ball game, where he met another baseball fan, Douglas MacArthur. The dialogue, said Bogart, went something like this: "The general said: 'Hear you had a pretty rough...
...nation that Leopold turned over to his son was prosperous beyond the dreams of most of Europe. Belgium, thanks in part to Leopold's submission to the Nazis, came out of the war almost intact. Her heavy industry is booming, her Congo rich in uranium, her shops and nightclubs are filled...
...iron bird they were looking for was Pan American World Airways' Constellation Great Republic, New York-bound from Johannesburg. It had made routine stops at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, and Accra, on the Gold Coast. At Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger...