Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRENCH CAR EXPORTS are facing more cuts because of U.S. compact competition. Renault fired 3,000 of its employees as unsold cars crowd French warehouses. Automaker Pan-hard cut its work week; Simca and Citroen plan to use some of the same production facilities to cut costs...
...Pan-African Congress, a splinter group of Chief Albert Luthuli's leading African National Congress, decided to test its strength among African workers by calling for the massive demonstration against the "pass laws," the symbol of White rule...
Sharpeville marks the turning point in South Africa's history. It shows that the extremist Pan Africanist Congress has successfully challenged the position of moderate Chief Albert Luthuli as leader of the Black political forces...
Essentially conservative, Sir Abubakar has little use for men like Ghana's flamboyant Kwame Nkrumah; he has even less for Nkrumah's grandiose hopes of merging many nations into a broad Pan-African association. "You can't expect us to surrender sovereignty we have not yet had time to get used to!" Sir Abubakar laughs, proudly aware that populous Nigeria at the moment of independence automatically became a far greater influence in African affairs than Nkrumah's little Ghana (pop. 5,000,000) can ever hope...
BIGGEST LEASE for office space ever taken in Manhattan was signed by Pan American Airways, which took 613,000 sq. ft. on 15 floors of the 59-story skyscraper to be built over Grand Central Terminal. Result: office building, once named Grand Central City, will be called Pan Am Building...