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Since there is a limit to the money that can be wrung from oil, the government is giving increased attention to the transformation of the southwestern province of Khuzestan into a huge agricultural-industrial complex. In addition, great copper deposits are being mined in the Kerman area of central Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: A Welcome for Capitalists | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

That old construction wage game-Can You Top This?-regularly features a new union winner, but the International Union of Operating Engineers may hold top spot longer than usual. It has just ended a 15-month strike in Western Pennsylvania by accepting wage and benefit increases totaling as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The $3.70-an-Hour Raise | 5/4/1970 | See Source »

Florida's conservationists disagree. In carving out the canal's first 27 miles, the builders created two dams and a reservoir that have already flooded 13,000 acres of forests in the Oklawaha River basin. Unfortunately, the basin forms a unique "hydric hammock" that abounds with rare alligators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Cloudy Sunshine State | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

Costly Imbalance. The Philippines' most urgent problems are economic, and Marcos is at least partly to blame. Priming for the election, he set records in building schools, dams and highways. In the year preceding the election, the money supply was increased by an astonishing 23%. At one point, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Marcos Besieged | 2/16/1970 | See Source »

Man's inadvertence has even upset the interior conditions of the earth's crust. One of the most respected U.S. geophysicists, Gordon J. F. MacDonald, reports that wherever huge dams are built, the earth starts shuddering. The enormous weight of the water in the reservoirs behind the dam puts a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Fighting to Save the Earth from Man | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

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