Word: volta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazil's blighted northeast elbow) ended costly subsidies on imports of wheat and petroleum, even though high-test gasoline prices immediately doubled. They raised the fare on Rio commuter trains from 3 mills to 1½?. They limited bank credit, froze steel prices at the government-owned Volta Redonda plant, and persuaded auto, truck and clothing manufacturers to hold the price line. Goulart, who rose to power as labor's pal, even promised a group of industrialists that he would hold wages firm so long as they restrained prices...
...became the fifth African nation to gain its freedom in a year, and the 28th since 1956. Even informed observers are becoming dazed by the endless roll call of big and little new nations that sound more and more like commuter stops on a train to Timbuctoo: Gambia, Upper Volta, Chad, Dahomey, Mali, Gabon...
Exports: Cocoa, timber, diamonds. Per capita income: $220. U.S. aid (1961): $22,600,000. Soviet aid: $196 million. Grows one-third of world's cocoa, but ran $100 million trade deficit in 1961. Volta Project (U.S. loans: $133 million) will enable Ghana to exploit rich bauxite deposits...
...UPPER VOLTA (F.) Pop.: 3,635,000. Size: 113,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 3%. School attendance: 6%. College graduates: Under 10. Moslems: 17%. Less than 0.4% get secondary education...
...Cameroun, Central African Republic, Chad, the two Congos, Dahomey, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Malagasy Republic, Mau ritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Togo and Upper Volta...