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...Congo needs a first-class harbor at its mouth and locks around its falls and rapids. Once really opened, this dark Elysium can pay in low-cost vegetable oils, in copper, in minerals and fibers yet unprospected...
...control its production and sale. The price of radium has fallen from $125,000 a gram to $25,000-in terms of an ounce, a decline from $3,500,000 to $708,750. The price fell first when the carnotite mines of Colorado and again when the Belgian Congo ceased to be the only profitable sources of radium. The third break in price occurred soon after the discovery in 1930 of a rich vein of pitchblende-the ore containing uranium and radium-at Great Bear Lake on the Arctic Circle in Canada (in North America only Lakes Superior, Huron...
White Cargo (M.G.M.) is the second screen version of one of the worst and most successful plays of the '205. Starchy, ambitious young Langford (Richard Carlson) goes out to the Congo, around 1910, to help run a rubber plantation. As he disembarks from the Congo Queen his unstarched predecessor is carried aboard, toes turned up, Britain-bound. Says young Langford: "Blahsted hot today." His new boss Witzel (Walter Pidgeon) moves off, moaning "I was waiting for that phrase." Witzel gives Langford the advice needed to keep Empire whole and hale: "Never let the [native] men see you are afraid...
...stops calling him awyla ("my man"), whines for new bangles, begs him to beat her. When he refuses, she starts calling the unwilling Witzel awyla, does her best to poison her husband. By the time his starchy successor is saying "Blahsted hot today," superheated Langford is steaming down the Congo, Britain-bound...
Africa is divided by two great military barriers: the jungles of the Congo, which isolate British South Africa from most of the continent, and the Sahara desert, which divides the Mediterranean littoral (now mostly Vichy-and Axis-held) from the more habitable portion of the tropics lying north of the Congo (see map). By cleaning out Dakar, Timbuktu and other small holdings, the United Nations would have this central belt within their grasp...