Word: guiana
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...Brunswick, Ga., came Rev. W. K. C. Redfern, Baptist minister and dean of Benedict's College, Negro institution, at Columbia, S. C. He is Paul Redfern's father, and together they mapped the course down the Caribbean Sea to Porto Rico, over the Windward Islands to British Guiana in South America, south to Brazil, across Brazil to Rio. He helped 108-lb. Paul load into the Port of Brunswick sandwiches, food, coffee, a rifle and cartridges, fishing tackle, mosquito nets, quinine, light boots, knives, signal flares, rubber life raft. These were to save his life if he landed...
...some French officer who had turned traitor. Captain Dreyfus was a Jew and as such was held in suspicion by the higher French military authorities. He was accused of treason, convicted by a military court and sent to He du Diable, convict-establishment off the coast of French Guiana...
...example I might cite the case of the Aluminum Company of America. The raw product of aluminum is bauxite, deposits of which occur in the United States, in British Guiana and in many other countries of the world. The principal cost of the manufacture of aluminum is electric power and labor. The cheapest power in the world is hydroelectric; the cheapest labor is foreign. The Aluminum Company has many power prop- erties in the United States, but others in foreign countries, and the largest power of all is now being developed in Canada. From its plants in the United States...
...most valuable stamp in the world. Should some one find, on an old letter, a big stamp with an octagon marked within its four corners, and a square inside the octagon, and in the square a schooner, full-rigged, with "British" in the sky above it and "Guiana" in the sea beneath, then the value of Mr. Hind's stamp would be lessened, for collectors would know that there were two such stamps in the world...
Once this famed stamp, the "British Guiana 1856" belonged to Philippe la Rénotière von Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost...