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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Edjelé strike, the rush was on. In July 1956 came a first producing well at Hassi Messaoud, in a field now estimated at 800 sq. mi. Two more promising oilfields have been discovered within a 50-mile radius of Edjelé, and one of the world's largest natural gas deposits (estimated reserves: 28 trillion cu. ft.) has been discovered at Hassi R'Mel, only 80 miles below the Algerian border...
...Sahara's wealth is not confined to oil: southeast of Tindouf lies what may prove one of the world's largest iron deposits (an estimated 2 billion tons of better-than-50% ore), and below the coalmining center of Colomb-Béchar geologists have found a lode of manganese capable of yielding 50,000 tons a year. Today the great cost of transporting them out of the Sahara excludes exploitation of these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara...
...outer skin a patch of black-carbon paint. A thermostat actuates a small shield that alternately covers and uncovers the patch as heat requirements dictate. Since the satellite uses electricity much faster than the paddle wheels can make it signals from the earth periodically shut of the largest of Explorer VI's three radio transmitters. A memory device called Telebit takes over, stores up what the satellite learns during its silence. When the transmitter is turned on again, Telebit spills out the stored information in the digital transmission system, a coding method so concise that data collected during...
Fresh signs that consumer demand is continuing to increase came last week from the Federal Reserve Board. It announced that consumer installment debt in June rose by $452 million (seasonally adjusted), the largest addition for any month since September 1955. The June increase raised total outstanding consumer installment credit to a new high of $35.8 billion...
...LARGEST MEN'S WEAR retail chain will be formed by merger between Richman Brothers Co. (118 stores in North and Midwest) and Stein's Stores Inc. (90 stores in South and Southeast...