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Among other well known poems shown are Amy Lowell's "Evelyn Ray," Carl Sandburg's "Chicago," Vachel Lindsay's "Congo" and "General William Booth Enters into Heaven...
...world's uncut diamonds. Not all these diamonds come from its own mines. Indeed, the great African "pipe" mines were closed down tight throughout most of Depression.* But De Beers controls Diamond Corp.. haughty successor to the old monopolistic Diamond Syndicate, marketing agency for the Belgian Congo and other alluvial producers. Except for an unimportant dribble from miscellaneous fields, all the world's diamonds pass through No. 8 Charterhouse Street, London, headquarters of Diamond Corp. In bad times Diamond Corp. buys more than it sells, in good times it sells more than it buys, annual turnover varying...
...Premier van Zeeland, pleasantly aglow after his thumping electoral victory last fortnight over Belgium's No. 1 Fascist, Léon Degrelle (TIME, April 19), was in no mood to give anything away to the Fascists from across the Rhine. Germany is starving for raw materials; the Belgian Congo is one of the richest properties in Africa. Dr. Schacht's scheme was that Germany should buy $84,250,000 worth of Congo copper, tin and oil, pay for it within a specified time with thermometers, automobiles, safety razors, cameras, et al. One potent group in Belgium hailed this...
...Barrett product that was not prospering was called "Congo." Somebody had the bright idea of painting the material and using it for floor covering. Erickson was enthusiastic but unable to persuade his fellow board members to boom Congo with advertising. They suggested that if he believed it was so good, he should buy the company. That he did, and the renamed product, Congoleum, was Erickson's first big killing. In 1924 he merged his company with Nairn Co. (cork, linoleums...
...Golden Jubilee exhibition honoring George V. Manhattan's Westminster was the biggest in its 61 years. Cruft's* surpassed the Westminster not only in number of entries (4.352 to 3,144) but also in having on display ten Basenjis-little red dogs from the Belgian Congo which wash their faces with their paws, arch their backs when angry, chase lions and emit no sound but "groo," having lost their bark in centuries of silent jungle tracking. The two shows were alike, however, in having on their entry lists more cocker spaniels than any other breed...