Word: coal
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...Paris' Pays-Bas bank, underwrote a $30 million issue of Utah convertible Eurobonds offered to non-American buyers. The company will borrow another $50 million or so from banks in the U.S. and abroad. All the money will be used in the development of a promising new coal field in Australia, which represents Utah's largest single undertaking...
Utah is one of the nation's biggest uranium-oxide suppliers to the Atomic Energy Commission, operates Lucky Me mine in Wyoming. The company has a contract with the Navajo tribal council giving it an option to strip-mine rich coal deposits on the Navajo reservation in northwestern New Mexico. More recently, Utah obtained options on valuable copper deposits on Vancouver Island, British Columbia...
...tripled its exports (to $58 million) in the past four years by completing a new, 140-mile railroad and by attracting such faraway customers as Japan, a major buyer of the kingdom's abundant iron ore. Beneath Swaziland's lush valleys and mountains are also gold, coal and asbestos. Cattle herds dot the sloping grassland, and citrus orchards and sugarcane fields flourish. Not the least of Swaziland's assets is the stabilizing unity of the Swazi tribe, to which all the new country's citizens belong except for some 10,000 white residents...
...Arms of Krupp, promises more flak for Author William Manchester. Scheduled for publication on Nov. 25, the book has already been reviewed by West Germany's Der Spiegel, which calls it "un-factual," full of "goofs," and a "gross oversimplification" of the history of the steel and coal concern that manufactured German arms in both World Wars. Manchester, says Der Spiegel, is guilty of factual errors about present-day-Germany, half-truths about the Krupp empire, and "anti-German resentment." Manchester was calm, figuring all along that they wouldn't like the book in Germany...
...scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...