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...hours later, rocking through the driving rain and ghostlike clouds of a monsoon storm, Captain Chris van der Vaart, one of KLM's most experienced pilots, nosed down. When the plane broke through the murk, they could glimpse the sea and the approaches of Bombay's Santa Cruz airport. As the pilot headed northeast to circle for a landing, the plane was again swallowed by the low-hanging mists. Suddenly its left wing brushed a hidden, tree-covered, 674-foot hill, ripped along its slope as the pilot frantically tried to gain altitude. Some 20 feet from...
...long neglected the rich lowlands. Only lately, with their tin starting to peter out, have Bolivians begun to look eastward. Even now, they are interested less in the Oriente's crops than in the oil that stands in golden surface pools in the swamps near Santa Cruz...
...Andean Cochabamba the government is building a cracking plant to process crude oil to be piped up from the Oriente. At Sucre it is planning a refinery. Last week it was negotiating a $16 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan to complete a highway from Cochabamba to Santa Cruz...
Brazilians and Argentines also have their eyes on the oil. Fighting malaria, dysentery and Indians' arrows, the Brazilians have rammed a narrow-gauge railroad 240 miles westward across the Oriente's jungle. With luck, they will link Sao Paulo and Rio with Santa Cruz by December 1950, later extend the line to Cochabamba to complete South America's third transcontinental railway. From the south an Argentine standard-gauge spur is now abuilding toward Santa Cruz...
...petroleum zone stretching parallel to the Andes right across the Oriente. "Today we have tin, tomorrow oil," gloated a Bolivian engineer. "There is no better oil anywhere in the world," said a Brazilian, with an unmistakably proprietary air. The Argentines, who were already selling cast-iron plumbing in Santa Cruz, expected to have their...