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...CURAÇAO. West and slightly north is the tidy, pastel-shaded Dutch island of Curaçao, which claims the world's second largest oil refinery. Here the tourists, most of them off cruise ships, bustle through town buying things, then are herded back on board to weigh anchor. Hotels and restaurateurs are hopefully expecting the cruise ships to begin two-and three-day layovers, at which time the food at at least one restaurant will veer from the ratatouille nicoise and péches cardinales to the plain meat and potatoes that are said to be what...
...MESNEY Cura...
Tried out in 1954 on the West Indian island of Curaçao, the scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays...
Willemstad, Cura...
...investment in the west did not pay off until 40 years ago, when vast bauxite deposits were found in Surinam, and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo oilfields were opened. During World War II, Surinam provided 60% of the U.S.'s bauxite needs for aluminum. Huge oil refineries on Curaçao and Aruba processed 72% of the crude produced in Venezuela. With this new prosperity, the Negroes, East Indians, Hindus and expatriate Netherlanders in the colonies (230,000 in Surinam, 174,000 on the islands) developed political ambitions. Political parties sprang up at war's end to demand...