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Word: durgapur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produces only 1,800,000 tons of ingot steel a year, the government must use up huge chunks of its foreign reserves to import the steel the country needs. Hoping to quadruple production by 1961, India has brought in the services of four different nations to do it. At Durgapur in West Bengal, 400 British experts are supervising 29,000 Indians in building a mill that will begin operation next fall. Also in West Bengal, in Jamshedpur, the Pittsburgh of India, U.S. engineers of the Kaiser Engineers Division are just about finished with a new 1,000,000-ton addition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Battle of the Mills | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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