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...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, a dozen road-bridges in Colombia, a port coal-loading device for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway in Newport News...
...fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers at the expense of others...
...pool in Louisiana, organized Penn Mex Fuel Co., and brought in two wells totaling 115,000 bbl. daily in Mexico's "golden lane" south of Tampico. When the partners sold out in 1916, they made $3,159,000 clear profit. Benedum discovered the famous De Mares Pool in Colombia on which International Petroleum fattened and wildcatted in Rumania's Ploesti field at Queen Marie's personal invitation. By 1948 he was back in the U.S. with still another new field, West Texas' Benedum Field, whose reserves were estimated as high as 600 million...
...Hotel, where he spends each winter, and Pittsburgh's exclusive Duquesne Club, where he recently rebuilt an elevator to take him directly to his fifth-floor suite, he keeps tab on every well. Besides Ohio, Wyoming and Texas, Benedum's wildcatters are exploring 750,000 acres in Colombia, also have 450,000 acres in Guatemala, and are dickering with a French oil company to help develop 3,000,000 acres along Africa's Ivory Coast. Says old Mike: "There's no country in the world of any magnitude that does not have some oil. We have...
After nine years of encouraged hatred, the military junta that has replaced Rojas cannot suddenly reverse the anti-Protestant policy without stirring up stiff opposition that could cripple their aim to return Colombia to civilian control. But the junta has allowed the largest Protestant church in the country, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in Barrancabermeja, to open its doors again to its 1,500 worshipers. And the government has promised a new visa policy to selected Protestant missionaries, who have had difficulty entering Colombia for more than a year...