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...Inland from Venezuela's Caribbean coast some 200 miles, the swift, black Caroni River plunges into the chocolate-colored Orinoco. Southward from this junction of two mighty streams lie jungles and sandy scrublands studded with low, reddish mountains. This poor-looking expanse is one of the world's great storehouses of iron. West of the Caroni looms Cerro Bolivar, blanketed with 500 million tons of high-grade ore. Farther west lies another iron mountain, El Trueno, endowed with 150 million tons. On the other side of the Caroni. Bethlehem Steel Corp. gathers up 3,000,000 tons...
...majority business view was probably expressed by Inland Steel Co.'s President Joseph L. Block, who forecast that whatever happens Nov. 6, steel output should approach a 12O-million-ton record next year, rise to a 143-million-ton capacity by 1959. "But it should enhance business confidence," said Block, "if the President is re-elected...
...carrying 41 million tons of freight some 7 billion ton-miles annually-more tonnage over a greater distance than either the Kiel or the Panama Canal. Touching every major Gulf port, it has helped boost New Orleans into the nation's No. 2 seaport, transformed Houston from an inland city into one of the busiest U.S. ports, handling $500 million worth of waterway cargo alone last year, including everything from autos to seashells. The waterway has also opened up the Gulf's vast natural resources at bargain-basement prices. By using strings of heavily laden barges, businessmen...
...Holland died in 1945 (Miller died in 1946), all but a final 140-mile section in Texas was finished; the waterway was 125 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep along most of its length, completely fitted out with locks, flood-control dams and side canals running up to important inland cities...
...Chemical) have built plants and warehouses along its banks, while thousands of others use it for cheap transportation. One enterprising Texan has built up a booming business carrying truck trailers up and down the canal by barge, thus eliminating dockside loading and speeding up the delivery of goods to inland points. To compete with low-priced local brews, Milwaukee's Schlitz floats 8,000-case bargeloads (equal to 45 boxcars) to Houston by inland waterway from the Great Lakes, saves 40% on transportation costs. Most of the oil industry's steel drilling pipe comes in by barge...