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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...Cross a Bridge. At Shrirampore, in a region called Noakhali, he settled down in a small, tin-roofed cottage in a dense tropical forest surrounded by ponds, coconut and betel palm groves and paddy fields. He dismissed his retinue of ipo people except for a stenographer and a teacher, who thought Gandhi at 77 not too old to learn Bengali. Often at Shrirampore Gandhi sang Rabindranath Tagore's Ekla Chalo (Walk Alone). Out one day for his afternoon walk, Gandhi tried to cross a bamboo-stick bridge, slipped and was saved from a splash by his teacher. Murmured Gandhi...
...this time, his eye fell on the ancient island of Singapore. Centuries earlier, a flourishing city had stood there, but it had become merely a negligible appendage to the Malayan Sultanate of Johore. Where Singapore city now stands were "four or five little huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade of the Malay peninsula and establish her naval power athwart...
...popular success. Said Fair Secretary Lloyd Cunningham: "The whole Fair Board was tired of being kidded about that picture. It was an insult to our pioneer Iowa farmers. It made them look coconut-headed, barrel-necked and low-browed...
...operates two million acres of palm-oil plantations in the Belgian Congo, 300,000 acres of coconut plantations in the Solomon Islands. It has its own freighter service between West Africa and England, sends three fleets of its own trawlers into the North Sea for fish (until midway in World War II, Unilever operated 17 of the world's fastest whalers...