Word: volta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trim Ghana regiment's 3rd Battalion; he also visited the headquarters of the air force, which now numbers 17 cadets. Politely, the duke inspected the ambitious new harbor project at Tema, 18 miles east of Accra, and the site of Nkrumah's projected $600 million Volta River project...
...French constitution setting up a new French Community. He is for African independence first and hang the economic consequences. In between are those who want independence without losing the economic benefits of links with France. Four months ago they set up the ambitious Mali Federation, combining Dahomey, Upper Volta, Senegal and the French Sudan. The big question for French West Africa: Which of the three movements will finally...
...Houphouet had been overtaken by history. But behind the scenes he worked agilely to undermine the Mali, freely predicted that the federation would collapse. He is already half right. Fearing to antagonize the Ivory Coast, which hires its workers and is its access to the sea, Upper Volta last winter decided to pull out of Mali. So did Dahomey. Now Houphouet and the leaders of Mali share a common concern over Sekou Toure's ominous flirtation with the Soviet Union and its satellites...
...costly. By using what the British called "exceptional" U.S. engineering methods, Kaiser cut projected costs from $900 million in the original British plan to $600 million, boosted power capacity by 40% and aluminum capacity by 10%, reduced building Lime from eight years to five. Equally important, Kaiser's Volta plan would slash power costs-now 23 mills per kw-h in Ghana-to 2 or 2½ mills for aluminum processors, 6 or 7 mills for others. Such a price is reasonable enough to spawn a whole family of new industries in Ghana...
...million. This month it will send a team of ministers to Washington to dicker with the World Bank and U.S. foreign-aiders, who regard Ghana as a first-rate investment risk. Says Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, which has rights to Ghana's major bauxite reserves and sees the Volta plan as an eventual certainty: "We would be interested in forming a consortium with U.S. firms to develop the project...