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...value in the six years since 1929. Under the personal management of Robert Earll McConnell, a highly successful mining and patent promoter who gets a cut from the trust's profits, Mayflower goes in for special situations even more heavily than Atlas. It made a tremendous profit on Rhodesian copper stocks early in Depression, has always kept a large part of its resources in cash or Government bonds to catch a bargain when it flits by. Though total assets are more than $13,700,000 Mayflower stock is inactive...
Products of Dominions & Colonies praised by the King-Emperor included Jamaican eggplant, Irish bacon, Rhodesian tobacco, Kenya coffee, Australian butter and sealskin slippers from New Zealand, of which His Majesty said, accepting a pair, "I think they will be very warm, comfortable and useful. All my brothers have gloves of sealskin...
...Rhodesian copper tycoon (Roan Antelope), announced he would become a citizen of England, where he has lived for 25 years...
...book, "The New Dentistry" Dr. L. M. S. Miner, Dean of the Harvard Dental School, describes tooth decay as the most ancient of all diseases. It has been found in the so-called Rhodesian man of 125,000 years ago. Dr. Minor points out that about 100,000,000 people in this country suffer from this disease, that $45,000,000 is spent for dental care a year, and that tooth diseases are steadily increasing. "The New Dentistry," published by the Harvard University Press is to be a popular and yet authoritative treatment of recent developments in dentistry...
Alfred Chester Beatty was one of the first capitalists to see the future of African copper. He was a major stockholder in Roan Antelope when it was formed in 1927 and created its 1928 alliance with American Metal. He was behind the launching of Rhodesian Selection Trust, which owns other Rhodesian mines. Under his guidance Roan grew quickly. It took properties that cost it $1,700,000 (most of the land is leased from British South Africa Co.) and spent $23,000,000 in making a mining business out of it. Mills and smelters were constructed, a village laid...