Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Century Co. has a postcard received from Major and Mrs. E. Alexander Powell, now in Northern Africa, posted at Hellville, Island of Nossi Be, Madagascar. Under its supercription is the note, "120 in the shade;" on the reverse side is a photograph of some twenty or more white-clad, topi-topped backs along a verandan railing, the owners facing a door-the caption is: "Waiting for the bar to open". And the message...
...Alexander Powell, author of By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne" and other travel books, is now traveling in America. He started at Abyssinia, where the king of the country entertained the American, then saw Madagascar and Megambique, and crossed Africa on the trail of Stanley. Along the Gold Coast north to Morocco and then a final motor dash across the Saharah, will finish his formidable and not exactly hackneyed expedition. He has a travel book partly written which The Century Co. will publish...
...leaving a deficit of $245,259,000. The Senate Committee applied a drastic economy axe to all departmental budgets achieving a cut of $113,400,000. Revenue estimates were raised by $170,100,000 by increased taxation returns, larger contributions from French colonies such as Indo-China and Madagascar, the attachment to the budget of $3,780,000 from the Saar basin coal- mines, and $31,500,000 from French railway companies for the sale of American railway army stock. Accordingly the ordinary budget will show a surplus of $38,241,000, and the French taxpayer receive value...