Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada was almost certain to arrive within 10% of its 550 million bushel record of 1942. Turkey was harvesting 35 million bushels more grain than last year. France's North African Empire, last year the scene of food riots, was doing so well by now that it expected to send up to 20 million bushels of surplus wheat and barley to the home country. France herself looked forward to a 295 million bushel wheat harvest, which would reduce her import needs from 70 million bushels in 1946 to a mere 20 million in 1947. Greece, Spain and Portugal hoped...
...Sunday school prize little Catharine Mabie won a booklet which told the pathetic story of an African slave girl. From that time forward, it was her ambition to bring Christianity to Africa's heathen. Under the auspices of the Baptist missions society, she set out in 1898 to fight fever and fetish in the Belgian Congo...
...sludgy start, the conference finally picked up speed, reached some decisions : to concentrate on raising the family status of African women; to petition the Belgian Government for reinstatement of a law encouraging monogamy; to prepare the way for more conversions (of 11 million natives, Protestants and Catholics have thus far baptized about 10%) with an all-out drive for mass education...
Forty-three years later, leaving behind her enough native schools, dispensaries, and simple Christian faith to do credit to half a dozen missionaries, cheerful, chunky Dr. Mabie retired. Last week, at 74, she was back in Leopoldville. The occasion: the first West Central African Missionary Conference to be held since 1928. Said Old-Congo-Hand Mabie tartly: "I am here to deal with missionaries who do not get on with their colleagues. The committee tells me that such a talk is needed at many stations. ... I have often wondered if young Timothy did not have his bad days with Paul...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...