Word: johannesburger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rescue. Minutes after the storm, Johannesburg's Bronx-born mayor, 45-year-old Hymie Miller, sounded an appeal for help. Ambulances and double-decker city buses raced down the veld roads carrying white doctors and nurses; enough shoes, clothing and blankets poured in to supply twice the number of homeless. When Mayor Miller appealed for emergency blood donors, thousands of Johannesburgers streamed out of movie theaters and cocktail lounges to line up, some all night long, at the blood-bank centers...
...week's end, cheering crowds met Hymie Miller as he and his white councilmen visited what was left of Albertynsville. "It's a long time since Negroes cheered a white man," said one surprised Johannesburg official...
...teeming Negro and colored shantytowns of Johannesburg, where newspapers and magazines are a rarity, a truck piled high with magazines rumbled through the unpaved streets last week. Wherever it stopped, hundreds of people swarmed about it, buying the magazine: The African Drum. A 5? Life-size monthly, Drum has in less than three years become the leading spokesman for South Africa's 9,000,000 Negro and colored population. In South Africa, torn by racial strife, Drum's popularity is easily xplained. "We air the views and grievances of the blacks," says Publisher James R. Bailey, a white...
...first came after it investigated the vast potato and corn farms 100 miles east of Johannesburg, where convicts and contract laborers were hired by white farmers. The farmers had been accused of fierce brutality, but had been cleared by the Malan government. Drum dressed one of its staffers in rags, got him on to the farms, later slipped in a photographer...
While not so fast as the Comet, which cruises at 480 m.p.h., the Super Connie, with a much longer range, will be able to fly from London to Johannesburg with one stop in 20 hours, a trip which now takes the Comet about 24 hours, with five refueling stops. Furthermore, the Super Connie itself will shortly take an intermediate step toward jet propulsion in a "turboprop" (i.e., jet-driven propellers) version as soon as turboprop engines are available for commercial use. (Lockheed is already building two Super Connies with Pratt & Whitney T-34 turboprops for the Navy.) These engines will...