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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's largest potash producers. It is pushing production of bromides and bromine, already ranks as one of the world's top five producers. Natural gas fields, recently discovered in the area, are being tapped and phosphate production sharply increased with loans from the Export-Import Bank. Last week a new plant opened in Sodom to refine table salt-95% of which will be exported to salt-starved Japan...
...voluntary exile in an isolated Burmese village near the borders of China and India. At least four high-ranking officers who shared his views were arrested or forced into retirement. With the opposition out of the way, Ne Win declared that the government would immediately take over the import and export business, the rice trade and some private industries. Burma's economy, said he, would now come under "total state control...
...austerity economy and stifling bureaucracy. About the same time, foreign demand for its iron ore slumped; production dropped from 1,000,000 tons in 1961 to 650,000 tons last year. Wage scales were adjusted downward to an Indian scale, but the cost of living climbed by 3%. Indian import restrictions abruptly cut off the flow of foreign goods, bankrupting many small merchants, and forcing Goans to pay more for Indian merchandise of a lesser quality...
...German-accented English. "It's no loophole. It's the law." The Interior Department, partly as a result of prodding from the State Department, agrees. Sagely, however, Hofmokel has concluded a gentleman's agreement with the Government: so long as Brownsville limits its oil imports to 30,000 bbl. a day, the U.S. will make no move to rewrite the overland import rules...
...Manhattan with $40 to his name. Remembering Pearl Harbor. A depression, he quickly learned, is no time to be an architect. In office after office, he found that the boss was just "sitting around reading the newspapers." So Yamasaki spent that first year in Manhattan wrapping china for an import firm. It was not until 1937 that he got into serious architecture, first with the firm of Githens & Keally, which was planning the main building of the Brooklyn Public Library, and next with Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, who had designed the Empire State Building. In 1941, he fell in love with...