Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orsi's two other factories. The police, leaving 30 men to guard the foundry, followed the marchers. Too late they discovered that they had been outmaneuvered: the foundry was the main objective after all. The workers rushed the gates 1,000 strong, while others circled the foundry to climb over the back walls. Police reinforcements arrived and an armed battle was joined. Casualties: six workers killed, 80 workers and two policemen wounded...
Indonesia urgently needs economic help; first to improve its war-ruined transportation system and second to regain its prewar productive capacity. Indonesia's biggest dollar earners-rubber, oil and copra -were coming back strongly, but the output of coffee, tea and kapok had still a long climb ahead. Before the war, Indonesia produced enough rice to supply her own needs. Now, rice imports are costing her $15 million annually. EGA has already agreed to provide $40 million in textiles, medicine and agricultural tools, and the Indonesians are hoping for another $100 million from the Export-Import Bank...