Word: sisal
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Citation: "Your father worked from sun to sun in the vast fields of sisal . . . Your education has been hard won, in the early years conducted under a tree with sand as your slate. While in school away from home you have at times walked in one day the 72 miles for a visit with your parents . . . Unceasingly you have labored [for] the common people . . ." Henry J. Cadbury, chairman, American Friends Service Committee L.H.D...
...Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which...
...mustached Julius Nyerere, 36-year-old head of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), slapped his knees with joy. In every reported result, his TANU African candidates and the Asians and Europeans backed by TANU had swept into the council over the white-led United Tanganyika Party, headed by Sisal Millionaire Stephen Emmanuel...
...owned steamships were seized in Indonesian waters. Dutch property transfers were placed under stringent control. In Djakarta the Nederlandse Cultuurbank and the last of the "Big Five" Dutch export-import firms were taken over by Indonesian management. The central government ordered some 500 Dutch agricultural estates throughout the islands (sisal, palm oil, spices) placed under the supervision of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture...
Magloire's most obvious money-makers were companies that manufactured soap, cement and sisal bags. He held a monopoly on all three products, and kept the profit margin high. Meanwhile his two brothers were uncommonly successful in a variety of enterprises, including the country's largest tobacco exporting firm. Another money-making deal involved the new Delmas Road leading out of Port-au-Prince; real-estate records show that before the road was built Magloire and his cronies bought up big blocks of the land along each side. And as the stories began to come out, dozens...