Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Goums and French Foreign Legion troops are holding the outpost of Dong-dang. The Goums-bearded, bemedaled, fierce-eyed North African troops-are savage, close-quarter fighters whose physical courage seems to have no limits. Many of the legionnaires are German-lean, hard-mouthed, blond men in white kepis, their pockets stuffed with grenades. Among them are veterans of Rommel's Afrika Korps. I asked Dupuis how he got on with them...
...been commissioned to illustrate the Church's first full translation of the Bible into Chinese. To him, as to Korean Sculptor Kim Chong Young, the Madonna was an almond-eyed lady in a flowing kimono. A Maori artist decked her in a long grass skirt. African carvers made her a Negro, often barebreasted, sometimes put heavy coils of beads round her neck. Indo-Chinese versions of the Madonna were apt to resemble the Buddhist goddess of Mercy, Kuan...
More than 20,000 men & women from every one of the United States and 48 other nations swarmed through Cleveland last week. They were all Baptists-Chinese Baptists, Irish Baptists, Italian Baptists, African Baptists and U.S. Baptists -representing the largest (16 million) group of Protestants in the U.S. To the annoyance of taxi drivers, they seemed to enjoy walking; to the regret of storekeepers, they mostly window-shopped. But Clevelanders were impressed to find their downtown streets crowded at 7 a.m., and delighted by the easygoing Baptist friendliness...
...gunwales with mortgage debt, saw that one of its main assets was its European freight representative, John Francis Gehan. Bustling, ebullient "Jiggs" Gehan, known as "a man who does business with a handshake instead of a contract," found cargo for American Export ships in so many South European, African and Near Eastern ports that the line came to be called the "Milkman of the Mediterranean." His business deals were legendary: when a Danish line tried to steal his customers by offering below-cost freight rates on flour, Gehan dug up so many flour orders for his rival that the Dane...
...first of 600 which Germany is shipping to the U.S. to sell at $1,280 to $1,997. The Volkswagen's appearance was the latest example of a new business phenomenon: the growing revival of export trade in both Germany and Japan. Two weeks ago, the South African government ordered 100 steam locomotives from Krupp of Essen, who offered a lower bid and swifter delivery than any one of a score of U.S., British and other competing firms. Rosenthal china and Leica cameras are once again in the world's markets. A British toy manufacturer complained that...