Word: continente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Artist-Adventurer Frank McEwen took up his new job last year as director of the Rhodes National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, he knew that he would face some problems as new as his gallery. One big one was that in primitive Southern Rhodesia (pop. 2,400,000) there...
Author White, his country's only considerable novelist since the death in 1946 of Henry Handel Richardson, has filled his most ambitious book to date ostensibly with the adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent'...
In a sense, the book shows the face of a nation seen as in a mirage of 100 years of history. For Australia's story, as it is told in the school books to this day, is not one of national revolution or wars of liberation, but a simple...
Father's Dream. The Krupp dynasty was started by a young Essen merchant named Friedrich Krupp, who switched to making steel when Napoleon's blockade of England cut the Continent off from supplies of high-quality British steel. Friedrich died a failure at 40, leaving his 14-year...
Gustav bought new iron-ore mines and coal mines, built bigger presses and mills. When World War I broke out, Krupp was the biggest industrial firm on the Continent, with 82,500 workers. During the war Krupp built the Big Bertha, the 42-centimeter mortar that smashed the Liè...