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...Close to Port Francqui and duly inspected by Their Majesties hums Leverville, a famed palm-oil extracting centre of the great British firm of Lever Brothers, "World's Largest Soap Makers." The late, picturesque William Hesketh Lever, who became Viscount Leverhulme, was a favored business crony of Uncle Leopold, and profited accordingly. Quaint was Mr. Lever's presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn...
...naturalist. But to the 20th century industrialist, eagerly scanning the world's wealth, the world's markets, Africa means first RAW MATERIALS, then CHEAP LABOR. Palm oil, extracted from the fruit of the African oil palm, the basis of many a soap, drew William Hesketh Lever to Africa in 1911 (see p. 17). More and more oil was needed for Lever Brothers' gigantic plant at Port Sunlight, England. The Congo held a vast, almost virginal source of supply. Into the Congo, 1,000 miles, went British industrialism, dutifully accompanied by British medicine, British education. Lever Brothers became...
Control stick: The lever by which the longitudinal and lateral (up and down, sidewise) controls of an airplane are operated...
...yard dash--7 1-10 sec. Harold Lever, Pennslyvania, March 3, 1923; F. V. Hussey, Boston College, March...
...Candidate Willis' turn last week to answer Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition. The purpose of this questionnaire, which is to be passed to each Candidate, is to force a lever of logic with which Senator Borah may be able to pry the political lid off a subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon...