Word: kariba
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steaming, fertile Gwembe Valley between Southern and Northern Rhodesia. Nature has guarded them, for their valley lies between the foaming splendor of the 350-ft.-high Victoria Falls, over whose sheer cliff pours 75 million gallons of water per minute, and a narrow, rock-walled gorge called the Kariba by the tribesmen because of its resemblance to the funnel-shaped traps they set for mice, rats and other small animals...
...turbulent present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into the world's largest man-made lake, storing 130 million acre-ft. of water-more than the combined capacity of the Shasta, Hoover and Grand Coulee dams in the American West. Soon the Kariba gorge, which had been inhabited only by crocodiles, hippos and an occasional Batonga hunter, echoed to the roar...
...Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses, and in Northern Rhodesia, Barotseland is regularly plagued by gruesome ritual murders. In the whole federation there are only four Negro physicians and three Negro lawyers, among 7,100,000 blacks. Ever since the federation was formed...
...Tata & Kariba. Both India's Damodar Valley and Mexico's Tecuala owe their new prosperity to that most capitalistic of all capitalist archetypes: the banker. He is Eugene Black, president of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development-generally known as the World Bank. It was the World Bank that lent Mexico $24 million to help bring power to Tecuala and other forgotten towns. To India it lent $38 million for its Damodar project, and from both nations President Black expects to get every nickel back-with interest...