Word: johannesburger
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city's Negro day laborers, pleaded greater costs, upped the one-way fare from four-to fivepence; a total of twopence a day. Negroes, earning from $12 to $20 monthly, had boycotted the busses...
...photography; in Lyme, Conn. Some 40 years ago, he developed precise measurement methods (on photographic plates made with long-focus telescopes) which became standard practice. He was director of Yale's observatory for 21 years, there built the 26-in.-lens telescope which was later set up in Johannesburg...
Born. To British Army Captain Jan Christiaan Smuts II, 31, younger son of South Africa's Prime Minister, peace time mining engineer, and Daphne Webster Smuts, 29: a son, their first child, the Prime Minister's 13th grandchild, first to bear his name; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
When Paris fell, one of the adjuncts of civilization that went with it was the Institut Pasteur. It was a severe loss to Allied soldiers, for the Institut was, among other things, the world's principal source of snakebite serum. From Johannesburg now comes the story of a long, dangerous mission undertaken by three enlisted men of the South African Army to help make up this loss...
...news: four papers in the Union of South Africa took the United Press service; Britain's Reuters went to Cairo. That was the sum total of U.S. news going to the Dark Continent. OWI now sends news, and lots of it, to Algiers, Casablanca, Accra, Brazzaville, Leopoldville, Johannesburg, Asmara and Cairo. The news differs in treatment: that for Sweden is very "sophisticated," that for Africa "primitive." In India news about the U.S. has increased 800%-meaning that now 10% of foreign news in India is American. No one knows whether this news has any propaganda effect. It probably...