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Togo is smaller than West Virginia and not much more populous than Maine. Traditionally an exporter of agricultural raw materials (cocoa, coffee), the country since World War II has made considerable strides, and with French capital is opening up rich phosphate deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOGO: Second of Seven | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula: constant exercise, no fried foods or fats, daily massage with cocoa butter followed by a cold spray, and a visit to the dentist "at least once a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: The Peeled Grape | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...Eastern Europe, operates like a Marxist. The two leaders, conferring through interpreters (Nkrumah speaks English, Touré French, and they have no common African language), pledged themselves to find ways of "re-enforcing" their union. But actually they were far apart. While Ghana is so flush with its latest cocoa crop that it is embarking on a $930 million five-year development program, Guinea has had to slash government salaries and adopt a budget that leaves no funds at all for development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUINEA: Left Turn | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...where will the $600 million bankroll come from? Ghana, which enjoys a trade surplus as the world's biggest producer of cocoa, can ante up $70 million. This month it will send a team of ministers to Washington to dicker with the World Bank and U.S. foreign-aiders, who regard Ghana as a first-rate investment risk. Says Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, which has rights to Ghana's major bauxite reserves and sees the Volta plan as an eventual certainty: "We would be interested in forming a consortium with U.S. firms to develop the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Ghana on the Go | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...Crops are as sure as a blue-chip stock,'' says a Quito attorney. "You plant bananas for quick returns, and a second crop-either coffee or cocoa-for the long term. In five years your annual income equals your original investment." As the second crops came to fruit, Ecuador's coffee exports jumped from $3,000,000 to $25 million, cocoa from $6,000,000 to $20.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECUADOR: Decade of Progress | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

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