Word: uganda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Giving examples of colonial projects that deserved immediate assistance he mentioned a great drainage scheme in fever-ridden Sierra Leone, West Africa; works in Northern Rhodesia to accommodate the enormous copper developments there; railway work between East African Kenya Colony and the British protectorate, Uganda...
...program of tour includes visits to the Afric colonies and territories of Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia, all of which lands may some day be federated into an already projected "Empire of East Africa...
...Harold E. Talbott Jr.-he is an Ohio manufacturer and sports man; she was pretty Peggy Thayer of Haverford, Pa. - arrived in Manhattan from Africa with a baby rhinoceros. They had bought it, alive, in Uganda on their hunting trip. It had died at sea. They sent it to be stuffed...
...opposite face of the earth, while these men gained their ways, George Eastman, head of the Eastman Kodak Co., was pursuing his second leisurely hunt* with camera and gun through the high lands of Uganda and southern Sudan. The scientific importance of his trip lay chiefly in the cinema films which, with the aid of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson,† he took of African mammals at their private affairs. Of lesser importance were the rare white rhinoceros and the more common water buck which he killed so that he might give them to the Natural History Museum at Rochester...
...interior of Africa the fishing isn't much, so they tell elephant stories. The Uganda game department last fortnight told this one, protesting truthfulness. A hunter shot an elephant. It fell down a hill. Two other elephants of the herd following down the sharp declivity slipped in the trough made through the undergrowth, fell down the hill, hit the bottom with elephantine bumps, died. Hunters rarely kill three elephants with one shot...