Word: amap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil holds a third of the world's known deposits of manganese. Three years ago, Bethlehem Steel surveyed the manganese-rich Amapá territory near the Amazon's mouth, drew up plans for a 140-mile railroad and a dock, arranged to seek a U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, and hoped to produce $50 million worth of manganese a year. To date, Brazil's nationalists have refused to give the go-ahead signal. At the Urucum manganese mine near Corumbá, on the Bolivian border (which could produce an estimated 500,000 tons annually, earn $20 million...
...beds of Amazon River tributaries in remotest Amapá territory, the glitter of gold has set off periodic rushes since 1893. Early in June a ragged, unshaven prospector stomped into a river village with word of the latest strike. To pay for medicine, food and tools, he had a poke of alluvial nuggets, which he had found in a branch of the Jari River...
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