Word: ubangi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury, and many procurers in the French Sudan, Ubangi-shari. Chad, the Cameroons and some British territories are ready and willing to satisfy their needs on "the ebony market" at prices ranging from $1,150 to a paltry $570 per slave (women usually sell for slightly more than men). La Graviére's charges and the evidence which supported...
This modern age has swamped the aspiring beauty with a dazzling treasure to glitter. Indeed, this is but a glorified hangover from primitive cultures. Why even the Ubangi maidens, frolicking around the breadfruit trees, knew the value of the earhoop. Civilization has reduced the size but this season offers mobiles, ceramics, circlets, danglers, buttons, and enamelled flowerettes...
Shelley to Ubangi. Because professors, even in England, cost less than comedians, the Third Programme operates comfortably on a budget of around $2,000,000 a year. And because it broadcasts only in the evening and leans heavily on recordings, the Third can get by with a permanent staff of 15, headed by 45-year-old Harman Grisewood. An Oxford graduate who came up through the BBC ranks as an actor and announcer, Grisewood often acts as his own talent scout. Pipelines to the universities and London literary circles help him find out who is at work...