Word: congo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread their interests to Alaska, Mexico, South America. Asia and Africa. The firm organized the Chile Copper Co., producing copper 9.500 ft. above sea level. In Chile, Daniel developed a new process for nitrate manufacture, and the firm has large holdings in this industry. For service in Belgian Congo, including metal and diamond mining, Daniel was made a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium...
...your Feb. 3 issue, you give two paragraphs to a discussion of King Albert's 500,000-acre game preserve in Belgian Congo...
Small boys who wish to go rabbit-hunting must ask a farmer's permission before venturing into his thickets. Likewise, those who wish to hunt apes and elephants in King Albert's 500,000-acre game preserve in Belgian Congo will have to ask permission of a committee whose personnel was announced last week by King Albert's Ambassador to the U. S., the Prince de Ligne...
...tools. They shyly asked for bright shells and beads. He learned a few of their phrases-short words and monosyllables. Their language, like that of the Andaman Island pigmies, was uniquely their own. Others of these minuscule peoples, whom bigger intruders have driven from their original homes along the Congo, have learned the speech of their neighbors wherever they have secreted themselves successfully enough to persist-in Africa's interior, along the upper Congo, in Ceylon, the Bay of Bengal, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines...