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...servicing, and by midsummer the number will swell to 20,000 as the pipeline contractors drive to make their target date of mid-1977. The spongy, oil-soaked strata nearly two miles beneath the tundra at Prudhoe Bay contains an estimated 9.6 billion barrels of oil, by far the largest deposit in the U.S. Initially, the pipeline will carry 1.2 million bbl. per day, an amount equal to one-fifth of the nation's current oil imports. If other fields in the inhospitable area can be brought into production as expected, the capacity will eventually rise to 2 million...
Port Gentil is also the home of what they told me was the "largest plywood factory in the world," the Compagnie Forestiere du Gabon. It's about the size of five football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth...
...bank (Union Monetaire du Afrique Centrale--a relic of the French colonial administration) laughed as told me the story. It seems that nobody in Port Gentil really cares about the central government of Gabon: Port Gentil is in effect an island at the mouth of southern Gabon's largest river. No highway or railroad connects it with the rest of Gabon and it's pretty much self-sufficient. Logs comes down the river to Port Gentil's sawmills, oil is beginning to be pumped from under Port Gentil, and ships come to take it all away. That's all anyone...
...many measures, the women's movement continues to grow. In the years since TIME'S special issue, for example, the membership of the National Organization for Women, the largest feminist group, has grown from 12,000 to 55,000. The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was passed by Congress in March 1972 and has been approved since then by 34 of the 38 states required for ratification. (Recently, however, the momentum for ratification has slowed, and North Carolina's rejection last month destroyed any chance for final approval this year...
...more optimistic members are betting that a big sell-off of swollen business inventories will soon leave corporations able to reorder goods and cause production to turn up. The Government figures that business inventories in March declined $1.92 billion, the largest drop on record (see chart). Board members are also banking on a strong surge of consumer spending in the months ahead as a consequence of slowing inflation and the reduction in income tax withholding rates that took effect on May 1. Even more important, the $100 to $200 rebate checks that the Government is now mailing to all taxpayers...