Word: edgar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps above all Africans), has walked out of the conference twice. The second time he dragged the Northern and Southern Rhodesian leaders out the door as well, in an attempt to unite the Africans delegations against their most powerful enemies: Sir Roy Welensky, the Federal Prime Minister, and Sir Edgar Whitehead, the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia...
...Banda two years ago have made a history in Rhodesia and Nyasaland too unhappy to be forgotten through such easy compromises. Yet as Dr. Banda himself has said, "There's absolutely no chance of conciliation or understanding between the Europeans and Africans in Central Africa" so long as Sir Edgar and Sir Roy are in power...
...Volta River seemed an unlikely place to make a major test of Western investment faith and prospects in the new, fiercely nationalist countries of Africa, but so it was. Meeting in Accra, President Nkrumah's Ghana government and a consortium of aluminum companies headed by U.S. Aluminum Maker Edgar Kaiser signed a historic agreement. Under the deal, Kaiser will raise $178 million to build an aluminum smelter. Ghana will supply the power by building a $168 million dam on the Volta River. "It could mean to Ghana what TVA and the railroads meant to the U.S., coming...
...segments of his Cabinet that favor outright nationalization of all Ghanaian private enterprises. As a precaution for its U.S. and foreign private investors, VALCO will take out International Cooperation Administration insurance against nationalization hazards. But in the long run, it is on the maturity of the Ghanaians that Edgar Kaiser is gambling...
...rapid, loose strokes rather than to aim for dead exactness. After Manet married, Berthe transferred her affections to his younger brother Eugene, who in time became her husband. Their house on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne became one of Paris' brightest salons. Impressionists Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were members of the circle, and so was a struggling artist named Auguste Renoir...