Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Aug. 8, on p. 17, under the subheading "Ooze," writing of the Congo valley, you say "lions, tigers, etc." Kindly inform me if the species of tiger inhabiting the Congo valley is in any way related to the blind-tigers which infest all valleys in America? Query: Are there any tigers to be found in Africa, outside of zoological gardens and menageries...
...that you credit them with a candor which they are far from claiming themselves. The Suez Canal is a mere pretext, and is so admitted by British officials. Nothing would be easier than to fortify a zone on either side of the canal, instead of garrisoning the whole Nile Valley for two thousand miles. No other Power could possibly interfere. With its Mediterranean Base at Malta, the British Navy always has, and always will, control the sea, and would have no difficulty in maintaining a Monroe Doctrine for Egypt. On both sides Egypt is flanked by a limitless desert which...
...plate" at the height of the excitement and had to scramble for it in full view of all. To avoid ostentation and accidents, the vacation motorcade was strung out in pairs of cars or singly. The five-day itinerary was Palo Alto to Bull Flat in the Eel River Valley; to Medford, Ore.; to Hornbrook, Calif., on the Klamath River; then back to San Francisco by rail, and by motor to Palo Alto again. In the spectacular Redwood country the Nominee sat by a camp fire, told stories, smoked a pipe. Cameramen begged for a "shot" of the pipe...
Descending the Congo valley, last week, on their way back to the Atlantic, King Albert & Queen Elizabeth came, after passing the Mountains of the Moon, to the border of what is perhaps the Congo's greatest wonder: the "Pigmy Forest," also called the "Stanley Forest" and the "Great Forest of the Congo." Strong, hearty, cheerful, white men have not seldom emerged from a journey through the Pigmy Forest with hair turned white and mind temporarily unhinged by its stark terror. Darkness. The Great Forest is always dark. So prodigious is the foliage that even at high noon deep twilight...
Elected. Richard Frank Grant, president of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, onetime (1924-25) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; to be head of the new Lehigh Valley Coal Co. sales corporation...