Word: veldt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veldt. Three years ago a message came to Scott in Johannesburg from black friends on the veldt: in South West Africa, a former German colony mandated by the League of Nations to the Union of South Africa, the white men were plotting to defraud the black men of their heritage. It was the "sacred trust" of a mandatory power to prepare native peoples for self-government. Instead, the Union of South Africa was preparing to annex South West Africa and force its black men (300,000 v. 30,000 whites) into a degrading system of racial discrimination (TIME...
...retired Canadian lumber dealer, Williamson was used to playing a lone hand. After acquiring a Ph.D. in geology at McGill University, he went to South Africa to work for a copper mine in 1934. He quit to roam the veldt in search of diamonds. After he found them (according to one story, a native found a diamond and took him to the site), he settled down to mining...
Josef Marais & Miranda (Mon. 7:15 p.m., CBS). Songs of the South African veldt...
...expensive piece-meal movement of a greatly improved Boyden station from Peru to the climatically far superior terrain in the high veldt of Orange Free State, South Africa. Here six telescopes are in constant use, systematically photographing the Southern skies...
...guns to native Africans. These recipients of British largess were played by 50 Senegalese captured last summer on the Western Front in time for the film's shooting. Somewhat confined by the British blockade, Producer Jannings made the fields of Berlin's suburbs serve for the African veldt. It was no trouble to get oxen from Hungary. Nor were soldiers a problem. Adolf Hitler gladly supplied them from his vast unused troop pool...