Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tommies or Tobacco? Last week-barring an outright threat of war from Prime Minister Harold Wilson-a declaration of independence seemed right around the corner. Following a week of talks with Wilson in London, Smith held a 95-minute press conference at which he declared that Wilson refused to "negotiate" independence on Rhodesia's terms, and therefore "we have to face up to the alternative, which is U.D.I." What Wilson wanted from Smith was a specific, concrete timetable toward total African enfranchisement. What he got was a promise that a sovereign Rhodesia would grant blacks their rights some time...
...THURSDAY NIGHT MOVIE (CBS, 9-11:15 p.m.). Parrish, a tycoon Tobacco Road set in Connecticut, with Karl Maiden, Claudette Colbert and Troy Donahue...
...Thomas Edison in 1883 developed the world's most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using the fuel cell to produce electricity aboard a one-man submarine, and Allis-Chalmers...
Peanuts & Petroleum. Even before Britain withdrew five years ago, Nigeria had a flourishing trade, exporting peanuts, cotton, palm kernels and cocoa and importing in exchange manufactured goods, foods and tobacco The first native millionaires made their money by competing with the white man for his trade. Among Nigeria's richest businessmen is Alhaji Sanusi Dantata 46, who buys and ships much of the rich Kano region's peanut crop. Dantata's agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu...
...Crazy Quilt." Squirreled away in silos and warehouses, the mess is worth $6.8 billion, consists of 795 million bu. of wheat, 1.2 billion bu. of corn, 640 million bu. of grain sorghum, 12 million bales of cotton and 1.1 billion Ibs. of tobacco. Though it has shrunk somewhat as a result of Food for Peace shipments, this vast reserve costs $365 million a year merely to store, and threatens to expand again as a result of this year's mighty harvest-which Agriculture Department officials view as an unmitigated disaster...