Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What brought the foreigners to South Africa was the discovery of the world's richest diamond and gold fields. What the new men and the new mines meant to South Africa is the theme of Stuart Cloete's book...
...Rhodes had come to South Africa for his health, carrying nothing but a Greek lexicon. At first, he commuted between Oxford and Cape Town; he took his seat in the Cape Parliament after he graduated from Oriel College. In Kimberley he built De Beers & Co., history's largest diamond monopoly, and made himself the richest man in the world. But he continued to live in a tin shack and to dream of the uses to which his money might...
...bell rang. In a great hall of the Kremlin the twelfth session of the Supreme Soviet formally opened. Premier Joseph Stalin, wearing a fawn-colored Red Army jacket and his Marshal's diamond, sat in the last row of benches. The hall was thick with Red Army...
Hermann Göring, whose diamond-studded baton wound up in the White House last fortnight, lost his outsized pants to the Seventh Army.* Major General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, 3rd Division commander, hung the Göring britches oh his wall, observed: "A lot of pants...
...Church of Moberly, Mo. Flyer Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...