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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Maginot Hilton. Ghana used to be known as the Gold Coast, and independence, in 1957, came with a silver lining. With cocoa exports thriving and the beginnings of a modern industrial plant, the country had $560 million in foreign currency reserves, boasted one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Nkrumah squandered it on such expensive status symbols as an international jet airline, which loses almost twice as much money as it earns, and a $20 million international conference site which includes a bulletproof, bombproof, twelve-story apartment hotel that Accra wags call "the Maginot Hilton." To promote...
...will probably rely on the Federal Reserve Board to further tighten the money supply. Last week Board Member Sherman Maisel, a Johnson appointee who had voted against last December's increase in the discount rate, surprisingly called on bankers to hold back loans for excessive inventory buying or plant expansion. Still another rise in the discount rate is by no means out of the question...
...transistors, and a series of them hooked together could reduce the innards of a TV set to the size of a cookie. The company has greatly broadened demand since 1964 by shrinking the average price of integrated circuits from $35 to $7. Improved technology, cheaper materials, and a new plant in low-wage Hong Kong all helped to bring the reduction...
...underground chamber on Magazine Beach near B.U. Bridge. Here the stormwater will be retained and chlorinated and then discharged into the river. The rest of the sewage flow will continue through the Boston Main Drainage Tunnel, as it does now, and be treated at the Deer Island sewage plant in Boston Harbor. Until the Deer Island plant was constructed last year the untreated sewage was discharged into Boston Harbor...
Still another type of pollution -- "thermo-pollution" -- threatens the Charles. Thermo-pollution does not present very great dangers to public health, but it does affect the wildlife in the river. It involves the with-drawal of water from the river, its circulation through a plant or building (a process which often raises the water's temperature and changes its oxygen content) and its discharge back into the river. The changed character of the water can mean increased growth of bacteria and algae, as well as death to fish...