Word: kenaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from tires and chemicals in Brazil to glass and textiles in Chile. The U.S. Export-Import Bank, he added, has made loans to Brazilians and Chileans for steel and textile mills, to Mexicans for steel mills and chemical plants. U.S. experts have shown Cubans how to grow and process kenaf fiber, starting a whole new textile industry on the island...
...completion of the Artibonite project, so that they can follow his example. Reclaiming, leveling and watering the entire 80,000 acres will require at least nine years, Haitian agronomists estimate. But by that time, they hope to have the valley sown with such diverse crops as cereals, vegetables, peanuts, kenaf, tobacco and cotton. Like Dorneirl, other Haitian farmers will be able to rebuild their wattle & daub huts, buy new clothes and send their children to school for the first time...
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