Word: tanganyika
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Africa, W. E. Cutler of the British Museum proclaimed the discovery of a dinosaur's shoulder blade, 6 ft. 2 in. wide, in the beds near Lake Tanganyika. The dinosaur had kin in western North America...
...meeting of the Tanganyika Concessions Co. in London, recently, produced considerable valuable information about the future of the Katanga Copper Co. of Africa...
...Katanga copper deposits are owned by a Belgian company-l'Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, incorporated in 1906. This company is in turn controlled by a London company-the Tanganyika Concessions, Ltd.-and a Belgian company-la Societé Générale de Belgique...
...have established lines of communication by tractor across the Sahara from Morocco to Timbuctoo in the heart of the continent. No one knows what a thorough exploitation of the continent may mean to the world's trade. Since the War, the development of African Copper properties, such as Tanganyika Copper, has already made its influence felt in the world's markets. In time, it is probable that coal and oil resources will be discovered too. The Germans still hold one trump card in African colonization-Bayer 205. This drug, discovered by the same laborious research that produced Salvarsan...
...Society of London) : Eleven brass arm rings, three coiled wire armlets, one glass bead necklace, 14 arm and leg bones (not all human), three spinal columns, one length bark cord (used by colored porters to carry bundles), 18 stones of assorted sizes, several porcupine quills. (The crocodile lived in Tanganyika Territory, British East Africa...