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...foreign companies; over unsettled conditions in the potentially great Chinese market; over the inaccessibility of Russia where the Soviet government holds $84,000,000 of Singer assets. Then Sir Douglas told of the counteractive efforts of his sales agencies in opening up new territory even in remote Belgian Congo; in introducing machines to 338,000 pupils in 12,000 European school classes. He announced growth of electrical machine sales which are now half of all sales and which he predicts will eventually be the only kind. Then he mentioned machines capable of sewing heavy leather, rubber, belting, canvas, window shades...
...Greatest Merchant and was certainly in the front rank of the World's Greatest Advertisers. It was also Lever Bros. search for raw materials that resulted in the first great industrial concession made by a nation to a manufacturer, and it was Lord Leverhulme who developed the Belgian Congo more successfully than it had been exploited under the vigorous but scarcely humanitarian methods of Belgium's Leopold...
...search for raw materials? particularly palm oil?that Lord Leverhulme became involved in the greatest of his enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created...
...Chile Copper Co. (cheapest and greatest copper producers). They developed copper mines in Alaska, tin mines in Bolivia and nitrate beds in Chile. Daniel Guggenheim, with the late Thomas Fortune Ryan and Bel gian, French and Portuguese financiers and politicians, worked up diamond mines in the Congo region. The Guggenheims, Daniel and his brothers, attribute much of their fortune to their hiring experts at no matter what cost and to maintaining the welfare of their employes...
Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, U. S. poet (The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven) who often loudly intones his own verses, returned last week to live in his native Springfield, Ill., after several years of residence in Spokane, Wash. In Chicago he was banqueted by friends. Said he of Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice...