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Last week the salvage firm of diving Italians kept 60% of their diamond haul, returned 40% to the original Belgian owners. That was right, that was legal, and in strict accord with the Italo-Belgian contract...
...their bellies in advantageous spots within the Amsterdam stadium. They were equipped with field glasses with which they surveyed the crowd. In this manner they were able to spot and seize some 2,000 cameras, thereby protecting the Olympic photographic monopoly which had been sold to one firm...
...Close to Port Francqui and duly inspected by Their Majesties hums Leverville, a famed palm-oil extracting centre of the great British firm of Lever Brothers, "World's Largest Soap Makers." The late, picturesque William Hesketh Lever, who became Viscount Leverhulme, was a favored business crony of Uncle Leopold, and profited accordingly. Quaint was Mr. Lever's presentation to King Leopold II of an ivory box containing the first cake of soap made from Congo palm-oil extracted at Leverville. Uncle Leopold, whom no gift could dazzle, afterwards said that the presentation cake "stank cursedly and wouldn...
...English channel where, in September 1917, a German submarine torpedoed the Belgian steamer Elizabethville in the safe of which was locked the entire diamond output of the Congo for 1917, valued at $10,000,000. The Government of His Belgian Majesty has just employed an Italian deep sea diving firm which proposes to raise the safe by means of a potent submarine magnet...
Orphan. Farmer boy. Colleague of Yaqui Indians. Keeper of a general store. Employe of a U. S. engineering firm. Rural politician. Recruiter of a two-thirds Indian army in the revolution against Dictator Porfirio Diaz who had been seven times President of Mexico-such was the manner in which Orphan Obregon became General...