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Through the streets of Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, Democracy ran joyously wild...
...plans call for 1) damming of the Volta river to provide a continuous 560,000 kilowatts, 2) building smelters to extract an annual 120,000 long tons of aluminum from local bauxite, 3) building a new harbor at Tema, 20 miles east of Accra. A government commission will work out an agreement between the British and Gold Coast governments, and British and Canadian aluminum companies; after that, the British will put up $121 million. The aluminum will replace about one-third of British purchases from dollar areas...
...iron bird they were looking for was Pan American World Airways' Constellation Great Republic, New York-bound from Johannesburg. It had made routine stops at Leopoldville, Belgian Congo, and Accra, on the Gold Coast. At Accra, a faulty magneto on the right inboard engine had been repaired. Three and a half hours and nearly 700 miles later, flying through a drizzly night, the plane approached Roberts Field near the Liberian capital of Monrovia. Veteran Pilot Frank Crawford, 38, asked for landing instructions from the tower. He reported trouble with the radio beam on which he was flying-the stronger...
Last December the colonial government sent out mobile vans with lecturers aboard equipped with loudspeakers, movie films, picture books, boogie-woogie records. From Accra, the capital, they beat through the bush for six weeks, covering 22,000 miles and 1,300 settlements. Usually the lecturers were welcomed with calabashes of palm wine, especially when word got around that they could forecast wedding dates for the girls. Here & there villagers greeted them with stones, for a rumor had also got around that the vans were after taxes or conscripts...
...chanting, jigging crowd gathered before Accra's town hall as the returns came in. Thirty-one of the 38 elective seats went to the Convention People's Party, an anti-imperialist group which preaches self-government. The loudest shout arose over the victory of the C.P.P. leader Kwame Nkrumah, 41, a firebrand orator who had attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. (A.B. 1939; Bachelor of Sacred Theology, 1942; M.A. 1942, University of Pennsylvania.) Nkrumah was not among the crowd; a year ago he had been clapped into Cell No. 9 in Accra prison (two-year term) for sedition...