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Perseverance. To get a light-filament he carbonized thousands of materials??? shreds from a fan, red hair from an assistant's beard. Thousands of invention ideas he tried, worked on, cast aside. He said that when an experiment seemed impossible of solution, that was the time to show interest, not discouragement. His was a standard phrase of the era: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration...
...search for raw materials??? particularly palm oil?that Lord Leverhulme became involved in the greatest of his enterprises?the development of the Belgian Congo. Situated in the least illuminated portions of darkest Africa, first explored by the famed Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the Belgian Congo consists of 900,000 square miles of tropical jungle, crossed by the Equator and watered by the Congo River. It was long-bearded, farsighted, savagely-flayed Leopold II of Belgium who first saw in the Congo district an opportunity for taking up the White Man's burden and the Black Man's resources. Leopold created...
...There are at present governmentally controlled combinations in nine raw materials???Egyptian long staple cotton, camphor, coffee, iodine, nitrates, potash, mercury, rubber and sisal. At present prices, if we maintain our present rate of consumption, these commodities will cost us about...
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