Word: guianas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris, French Guiana has always been a very special colony. Other outposts provided lucrative markets and natural resources, but Guiana depended on France for nearly every necessity-right down to clothes, cheese and Calvados. Yet, in a grisly way, the Indiana-sized enclave more than paid its keep. Brutally humid, far from France and isolated by shark-infested waters and impenetrable jungle, Guiana was the dread, virtually escape-proof exile to which France's worst criminals were shipped. The most famous, of course, was Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army captain who was cashiered on a trumped-up treason charge...
Telemetry Stations. Now French Guiana, elevated from colony to département when the prisons were shut down in 1946, is bidding to redeem its past through a promising future. The reason: equatorial Guiana is strategically located for the space age. At its latitude of 5° north, the surface velocity of the rotating earth is much swifter than at Cape Kennedy, which is at latitude 28° north. Thus, a rocket fired in Guiana can lift about 24% more payload with the same thrust than one fired at Cape Kennedy. Moreover, Guiana has a 120° stretch of open...
...Jagan's anger was presumably aroused by Schlesinger's policy advice to JFK: "An independent British Guiana under Burnham (if Burnham will commit himself to a multiracial policy) would cause us many fewer problems than an independent British Guiana under Jagan...
...create a new, more flavorful soy-bean drink called Puma, which has more than 100 flavor ingredients, including vanilla, orange and cinnamon. Monsanto's Hong Kong subsidiary, Lomond Ltd., will produce the powder concentrate for Puma. The first franchise operations are now being set up in Guiana and Taiwan, and several others are expected to follow soon in other parts of Asia and Latin America. Lo, who owns one-fifth of the company's shares and gets royalties on Puma sales, is managing director of Lomond. Monsanto hopes that under his hand the proverbial cow of China...
Shoes & Sugar. Long before the "Harlem Renaissance" of the '20s Negroes had poets and writers, while black doctors, scientists and inventors made important contributions to post-Civil War technological advances. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, a native of Dutch Guiana, laid the foundations of the shoe in dustry with his shoe-lasting machine, Norbert Rillieux greatly lowered the price of sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter...