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...Vague Appeal. In Liberia, British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government officials. "As a whole," he said, "the African leaders are as embittered, confused and without hope as any group of men on earth...Grievances vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement...
...spring by a chemist friend of the theoretical possibilities of the seed, read up on the subject and was deeply impressed by what he found. He discussed the matter with President Truman, who passed him on to Oscar Ewing, Federal Security administrator. U.S. scientists had already been ordered to Liberia to study the plants, collect seeds, and investigate the possibilities of large-scale cultivation there, or of transplanting to the U.S. After talking with Laurence, Ewing expansively declared that "this may be to chemistry what the atomic bomb was to physics," and asked for a $1,750,000 appropriation...
After wartime service in Africa, ex-Lieut. Colonel Lansdell K. Christie heard about Liberia's "Devil Mountain," a rich lode of iron ore in the Bomi Hills. Business-wise Christie, who had made a small fortune operating a barge line in New York, went back to Liberia after he was demobilized. He wangled a concession from the Liberian government to mine the mountain area, where ore assayed 68% iron (average in the Mesabi Range...
Last week, Christie persuaded Republic Steel Corp. to come in on his deal. He sold the corporation approximately 20,000 shares in his Liberia Mining Co., Ltd. (no connection with Edward R. Stettinius Jr.'s Liberia Co.-TIME, Oct. 6, 1947). In two years, he and Republic hope to be shipping 1,000,000 tons a year from Monrovia to Republic and other U.S. steel mills...
...railroad to the mine and getting the mine in operation. Just how much ore is in the mountain has not been determined. But Christie and Republic estimate it upwards of 30 million tons, enough to make the deal highly profitable for both of them, as well as for Liberia...