Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain, India and other Non-Self-Governing Lands; 2) Canada; 3) Australia; 4) New Zealand; 5) South Africa; 6) Newfoundland; 7) Irish Free State; 8) Southern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South...
...South African dominion yielded vastly more gold than any other part of the world, 10,877,777 fine ounces (worth $224,560,439). Second was Canada with 2,693,892 fine ounces, third the U. S., fourth the U. S. S. R., fifth Mexico, sixth Australia, seventh Rhodesia, eighth Japan...
...Truro, N. S., Canada; David Worcester, Boston, Mass., Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarships: A. B. Cleaves, Providence, R. I.; C. R. Williams, Schen- ectady, N. Y.; R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H.; Carlton Thayer Broderick Scholarships: J. H. Moses, Pleasantville, N. Y.; C. J. Roy, Wentworth, Mo.; David Kransdorff, So. Rhodesia, So. Africa...
Greatest known stores of gold lie in Canada, southern Rhodesia, Siberia and western Australia...
Over a stone slab in the lonely Matopos Hills of Rhodesia a big Hercules biplane will fly this week. In its flight the plane will accomplish, in unforeseen manner, the dream of Cecil John Rhodes. It was his ambition to see a British railway "from the Cape to Cairo." The railway is not yet finished. But the 18-passenger ship which crosses Rhodes's rock-hewn grave is the first of a weekly service of Imperial Airways connecting not only Cape & Cairo, but both of them with London and India...