Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warned that there was "never a more important time than now" for balancing the budget. Behind Martin's words: the U.S. Treasury Department's discovery that investors' fears of deficit and inflation are making it increasingly difficult to refinance the huge Government debt even at high interest rates (see BUSINESS...
...left, Astor could not go along, and soon the magazine Today, which Astor had founded along with F.D.R. Braintruster Raymond Moley to boost F.D.R., was calling the Hudson Valley neighbor "an irresponsible radical." Today merged in 1937 with Newsweek, in which Astor held the controlling 60%-plus interest...
...progress that the little country of rivers, steamy swamps, rocky hills and dry savannahs seemed to be making under its Marxist leader. Since De Gaulle's wartime days as the Man of Brazzaville, when the colonies rallied to his cause, France had been taking a new interest in her southern empire. While, before the war. the whole of French Africa got only one-eighth of what France poured into her other overseas territories, it has since received more than $2 billion. Of that, $79 million has gone to Guinea...
...Ghanocracy Does Not Interest." The African leaders who cry so loudly for independence have also learned that, beyond a certain point, Africa's problems become not so much those between blacks and whites as between Africans themselves. For generations French West Africans have feared the Senegalese, who were among the first to join the French in subduing them. The Senegalese in turn fear the lean, desert-dwelling Moors, who are fighting men with a long tradition of trading in slaves. In Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast there have been recent race riots against African immigrants from Togoland...
...figure of Nkrumah no longer looms so large as it did, for Nkrumah's highhanded suppression of those who oppose him has offended other leaders. "Ghanocracy," snorts Premier Mamadou Dia of Senegal, "does not interest us." And Premier Sylvanus Olympio of Togoland, on Ghana's border, wants to delay his own country's independence until Nigeria gets its in 1960, on the simple theory that Nigeria's 34.7 million people would never bow to Nkrumah...