Word: congo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50? a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each...
...powdered whole milk. On a visit to Leopoldville two years ago, McCoy noticed that, after the bicycle, the phonograph was the natives' dearest possession. He got the owner of a local record company to help him write some lyrics in Lingala, the vernacular understood up & down the Congo River, set them to a jungle rhythm and had records made. The song...
Natives are not only buying Klim milk for their children, but many have started drinking it themselves. Result: sales are up about 85% in the Congo...
...room, with a bowl of flowers on it. As the commanding point ki the room, the pedestal has been designed to "go back to nature itself, like almost all religions." It is an upright section of a mahogany tree, believed to be from the Belgian Congo, and about 250 years...
Active and Passive. For Dr. Hammon, the progress reported marked a hilltop on a long, hard road. Ohio-born, he took mission training in Pittsburgh and supplemental work in Brussels, then shipped to the Belgian Congo for four years as a medical missionary. Not until he was 28 did he enter Harvard Medical School. Many of his recent years as an epidemiologist have been spent in trying to persuade his colleagues (including those at the National Foundation) that gamma globulin was worth a major trial. Lately, and in the tests themselves, Dr. Hammon has had great help from Philadelphia...