Word: liberia
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...Harvey Samuel Firestone Jr. since January have been in Liberia (Africa) inspecting the two 50,000 acre plantations of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. and experimenting with their radio. Last week, on a wave length of 43.5 metres over a distance of 4,600 miles, Rubberman Firestone radiobroadcast to Akron, Ohio, news of the latest Firestone plantation operations. Men in the Akron plant heard and heeded the words of their president...
...Strong, who in the past two years has spent most of his time in Liberia, at the head of the Harvard Medical Exhibition, will speak on "Health Conditions in Equatorial Africa...
...third threat to British rubber supremacy looms in the Negro republic of Liberia, West Africa, where the plantations of Big White Rubberman Harvey Firestone are now in process of producing (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). Meanwhile, what is being done by Great Britain to defend her grip on rubber...
...Strong Hon. '16, professor in the Harvard Medical School, spoke last night in the Living Room of the Union on the customs and habits of the various tribes of Liberia, the country in which he, at the head of the Harvard Medical Expedition, spent most of his time during the past two years. He accompanied his lecture with motion pictures, showing in detail the work of the expedition...
...have been placed in museums of the University. It was discovered that the only difference between the forests of Africa and those of South America was in the variety of palm trees. Whereas there are several hundred species of the palms in South America, there are only 15 in Liberia...