Word: portion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rapidly being created in the "Dark Continent." The Cape-to-Cairo route of about 5,000 miles by rail and water lacks only 300 miles of railway line. Also, the Benguella railway line from the Katanga copper fields to the African west coast is largely completed, and the unfinished portion is being steadily lessened. Altogether there are 23,000 miles of existing railway mileage in Africa, which provide freight as well as passenger facilities. More and more African railways are used for commerce; in the beginning they were patronized mainly by travelers...
...with this one. They hired a few professional actors and filled the other parts with pupils, thus giving the latter the privilege of appearing, as advertised, in a Broadway production. For this purpose they chose a poetical prize play on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. A goodly portion of the audience the opening night were parents of those concerned. It is likely that succeeding audiences, if any. will be similarly composed...
...loan of ?9,000,000 was floated in London to hold off the market 4,535,000 bags of coffee. The British drink tea, not coffee, and so were indifferent to the purposes to which the loan funds were to be put. But curiously enough, a considerable pro portion of this 7½% coffee loan was sold in the U. S., the greatest coffee-consuming nation in the world. U. S. investors consequently helped to supply the funds needed to rig the coffee market, and thus had to pay higher prices for their coffee...
...stood for the keynote of the Institute's month of sessions to follow. Whereas the past four Institutes had examined past and present, now the future was to be scrutinized, predicted, perhaps shaped, through candid interchange of aims and beliefs in a polyglot gathering, wherein at least a portion of the 232 men of theory were men of action as well. Lionel Curtis, editor of The Round Table (London), led off for the visiting speakers with a concrete proposal for speedy mobilization of the opinions of nations on issues of international import : Let every nation establish its national telephone...
...Teaser. The arrival of the country cousin (this one from Menominee, Mich.) and her methods of winning the hard hearts of her city relatives are recognized stock for cinema soup. This portion is seasoned sensibly with novelty and makes a fair dish of entertainment. The extraordinarily blonde Laura La Plante occupies herself genially enough in the title part...