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...sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...
...such industries as shipbuilding, aircraft and aerospace, metals, machinery and tools. In many cities, there is also a growing scarcity of teachers, nurses, social-welfare workers and even typists. Labor pirating by firms has broken out in the Midwest as a result of shortages of ironworkers, carpenters and cement masons. Contractors in Springfield, 111., are so short of bricklayers that they have enticed 15 Irish craftsmen to immigrate to the U.S., are clamoring for 40 more. Older people find it easier to get jobs because of the pinch: Des Moines Contractor Don B. Betts recently hired an 83-year...
...first common banking venture, but one of the very few joint ventures of any kind brought to fruition in Asian history. Burma's U Nyun, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, sensed a historic moment as he troweled cement onto the cornerstone of what will become a ten-story headquarters building. "When historians look back from the future on this structure-to-be," he said, "they will say that it was the new financial temple of Asia." Eugene Black, former World Bank president and now a special adviser to Lyndon Johnson...
...northeast and Thanh Hoa at the southern apex. Around Hanoi are a thermal power plant, an engineering facility, key bridges and the Phuc Yen airfield, where Chinese-supplied MIG-17s are based. In addition to its vast port, Haiphong's potential targets include two power plants, two cement factories, two airfields and three storage areas that hold 70% of the country's POL (petroleum, oil, lubricant) supplies. Also within the envelope: 22 SAM sites, a network of earthen irrigation dikes in the fertile Red River delta, extensive mining operations...
...incipient desire for goods and services behind the rusting Iron Curtain. It was with Bonn's tacit approval that Krupp General Manager Berthold Beitz began reconnoitering Eastern Europe in 1959. Beitz has since signed deals worth $72 million for everything from fishing-boat engines for Bulgaria to a cement factory for Yugoslavia. Other industrialists followed. All told, West German exports to the East have quintupled since 1955 to more than $500 million a year. West German trade missions are active in Russia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland...