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...West of Calcutta, where the Tata plan and the three government steel mills an racing to completion, the Tata plant is the one most nearly finished. Kaiser Engineers Division was hired by Tata to handle construction and engineering (since Jamsetj Tata's time the company has traditionally looked to the U.S. for technicians), assembled a work force of 14,000 Indians who put in 18 or more hours a day. The new section will pour steel next summer...
...proposition, ideas poured in for everything from an opium den (rejected) to importing Linotypes (encouraged). Last week, when Graham reached India, where he offered to launch five more borrowers, the influential Times of India printed his picture on the front page. Scores of young businessmen who missed him in Calcutta pursued him to New Delhi, where his mailbox at the Imperial Hotel was jammed with 500 loan applications before he arrived, and the telephone never stopped ringing...
...Suhrawardy, was a Moslem high court judge, his mother a noted Moslem writer in a land where women usually live in obscurity. Moved up along the well-marked trail of well-off Indians to Oxford, won honors and a law degree. Politics-minded, he became a city councilman in Calcutta, a member for 24 years (1921-45) of the provincial legislative council of British-run Bengal; in 1946 he became provincial Chief Minister. Though a Moslem, he lined up with Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian leaders in the struggle for Indian independence. In 1946, when bitter Hindu-Moslem rivalry burst...
India got its independence and was partitioned into a secular new India and a Moslem Pakistan amid a Hindu-Moslem blood bath, Moslem Suhrawardy stayed anchored in India's Calcutta, offended because he was offered what he considered a lowly Cabinet job in Pakistan. No enthusiast for a theocratic Moslem state anyway, he made his home in India until India's tax collectors clamped down on his business, rugs and 1947 Buick...
...tourist sights ("I wept as I sat on that bench and looked at the Taj Mahal"), Author Wylie is dazzling the natives with his knowledge of Shinto, his deft handling of chopsticks, his keen analytic mind. Everywhere Wylie trails disasters-Hong Kong was harassed by bubonic plague, Calcutta by cholera, "just after we left"-confounding Communists with his arguments, straightening out the thinking of Asian leaders and U.S. officials. Wylie's heart is obviously in the right place even when his head...