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...size, but what resources Africa has are precious. The Belgian Congo and Northern Rhodesia are the world's principal sources of cobalt, used in hard steel for toolmaking. Vanadium and manganese, also necessary for steel, come from the Gold Coast and South Africa. Tin comes from Nigeria, industrial diamonds from the fabulous Transvaal mines, rubber from Liberia, copper from the Congo...
...other side of Africa, in British Nigeria, he boarded Pan American Airway's Cape Town Clipper, which was homeward bound on a test flight to the Belgian Congo and back. One day last week, Steinhardt landed in New York. For newsmen, the tall, angular man who has been observing the agony of Russia from inside had only: "Until I report in Washington I have nothing to say." At the White House, before the President left for Warm Springs, Steinhardt began his report. This week, with the President's return, he will read on from his diplomatic book...
...Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted shortly. The company intends to have the service functioning before snow flies...
...masterpieces of early African Negro art, bronze heads discovered in 1938 at Ife, in Nigeria, have been placed on public exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Anthropology until...
...bronzes, were discovered by William R. Bascom, of Northwestern University, during research in Nigeria, on the West African coast, near the famous native metal working center at Benin...