Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he retired, Stannard and Kennecott directors made sure that they had the right man to replace him. Since they were planning to spend $10 million to help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South...
...Vague Appeal. In Liberia, British West Africa, the Belgian Congo, the Union of South Africa and the Rhodesias, Dean Pope conferred with 125 native leaders, as well as missionaries and government officials. "As a whole," he said, "the African leaders are as embittered, confused and without hope as any group of men on earth...Grievances vary, but there is almost universal bitterness against white men-a small minority in every country who have arrogated to themselves all the most important political prerogatives, economic resources and cultural opportunities." The leaders have little contact with one another and Communism as a movement...
...down in a hut with a dozen natives. Today the missionary has largely become the chief of staff of an institution doing work much of which could be and should be done by government agencies. Perhaps missionaries need to get back to the day-to-day life of the African again...The new kind of missionary Africa needs is a moral and spiritual technician [who will] not preach the Gospel vaguely, but relate Christian philosophy to the needs and aspirations of the people where they...
Answer to Prayers? Last week, hopes were briskly and perhaps brashly fanned for a short cut in production. Science Reporter William L. Laurence of the New York Times reported in a Page One story that "The seed of an African plant holds the answer to the prayers of millions for cortisone...Strophanthus sarmentosus is a potentially unlimited source of the raw material for cortisone." This material, he said, is "more closely related to cortisone than ox bile acid, and will therefore require many fewer steps in its chemical conversion...It is 17 steps nearer to cortisone than bile acid...
...spokesman said, would be "an extremely difficult matter." Its chemical structure is similar to the 17th intermediary product in the current process, he admitted, but that similarity by no means assures that the end-product after further processing will be identical. So far no sarmentogenin, the product of the African plant, has ever been fully processed into cortisone...