Word: burma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drugstores of Southeast Asia. Three years after the French gave up Indo-China, half the cars in Laos are German-made; in an auto race in the Belgian Congo, Volkswagen took the first eight places. The heavy-machinery firm DEMAG has built the first steel works in Egypt, Korea, Burma and the Philippines, and others for France, South Africa, Brazil and India. DEMAG-built furnaces now turn out some 37 million tons of steel a year round the world−13% of the world's product. Krupp's technicians are running up 41 waterside cranes in Pakistani ports...
...increase the per capita gross national product to the present U.S. level by 1980−when Mexico's population will have doubled−Mexico would have to boost national output 2,500% (to $156 billion) and invest the astronomical sum of some $400 billion in capital. In Burma the same goal would take an 8,900% boost in G.N.P...
...delegates, all in their native garb of longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from the government. U Tin U himself has applied for the Lone Chang...
...William Augustus Richardson Jr., 37, round-the-world Canadian mining and prospecting share operator (TIME, Feb. 4), who lined up so many interesting possibilities that he is taking off on a firsthand inspection trip to Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, Indonesia, Burma and Thailand. He said he can raise $200 million if the mining ventures pan out. Among the possibilities: a $7,000,000 to $9,000,000 deal with Bulent Yazici, executive vice president of Turkey's Industrial Development Bank, to build Turkey's first chrome-plating mill...
Three of the fellowship holders are from Pakistan, two from India, two from Burma, and one from Indonesia...