Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drop in prices was partly caused by the South African gold and the great outpouring of hoarded gold from China since the Communist victory. But the biggest and most significant cause was the improvement in economic conditions in France, Britain, Italy and The Netherlands, and the renewed confidence in many of the world's currencies since devaluation. Though monetary experts still kept their fingers crossed, that drastic cure was apparently working. (However, in Iron Curtain cities such as Bucharest, gold was still bringing $68 an ounce, though even there it was beginning to drop...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Maclean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...
...Time to Look Back, by Leslie Greener. A South African novelist finds a Christlike figure among the prisoners in a Japanese P.W. camp, traces his influence on prisoners and guards in a moving, if sometimes oracular story (TIME...
Escape to Adventure, by Fitzroy Mac lean. A World War II brigadier and Tory M.P. describes his prewar prowling in Russia, his commando adventures in the North African desert and his guerrilla life with Tito in one of the best personal-adventure books in a long while (TIME...