Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with curly, greying hair. Gross haunts the lumber yards of New York searching for wood, particularly such exotic varieties as the bright red cocobola from Colombia, ebony from Africa, red-brown rosewood from Brazil, golden-brown teakwood from Burma, striped tigerwood from Nigeria, dark red snakewood from British Guiana and his favorite lignum vitae from Jamaica. In his littered Greenwich Village studio he chips away at them with a caressing affection for the material, slowly turning out the figures that express his own sunny philosophy...
...Captains Carousing at Surinam lies a world away from such formal make-believe. Painter John Greenwood, a footloose Boston artist, showed the soft underbelly of Puritanism. Surinam, or Dutch Guiana, was a stopping place on the Yankee merchant circuit. Greenwood spent some years there, put himself in his picture rushing, candle in hand, for the door. Among the other identified portraits is that of Captain Nicholas Cooke (later Governor of Rhode Island), smoking a pipe and talking with Captain Esek Hopkins (later commander of the Continental navy) at the table. Another Hopkins, Stephen (who was to sign the Declaration...
...exhibitions at once: an International Auto Show of 150 models (130 are foreign makes, and most of them are making their U.S. debuts); the Fifth International Philatelic Exposition, with 575 stamp exhibitors from 69 governments and $5,250,000 worth of rare issues, including the famed century-old British Guiana one penny black stamp; a National Photographic Show, with 170 exhibits worth some $10 million, including a glass-walled tank to demonstrate the latest underwater photography techniques...
CHARLES R. JACOB JR. Georgetown, British Guiana...
...rural electrification. More than half the cash for the program will be provided by long-term loans from British financiers and the World Bank. Most of the remaining funds will come from the British government, in direct grants and interest-free loans. The rest will come from British Guiana itself...