Word: craa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shadowless reaches of the Spanish Sahara, some 40 miles from the Atlantic Coast, the dusty oasis of Bu-Craa swelters in the middle of a moonscape of endless dunes and burned-out scrub. It is an ancient cross roads for camel caravans and fierce des ert nomads in their swirling burnooses. For years, Spanish Foreign Legionnaires in their whitewashed forts knew Bu-Craa as a lonely corner of the end of the world...
...will be lonely no longer. Last week the Spanish government announced that at Bu-Craa, in partnership with the International Minerals & Chemical Corp. of Skokie, Ill., it will soon begin mining the world's richest phosphate deposits, delivering the raw material of chemical fertilizer to an expanding market all over the world...
Experimental mining has begun at Bu-Craa, and a small village has been built by Spain for the first 500 workers. Desert roads have been cut and bids are being taken for a $30 million conveyor belt to carry ore to the sea. If all goes well, within a decade the lonely oasis could become the source of enough fertilizer to help feed 68 million people a year. Thus the whole world has a stake in the project's success...
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