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...when the rains stopped. Furtado plans to send the stored water through irrigation canals, increase irrigated acreage from 37,000 acres to 247,000. He hopes to wean farmers away from one or two soil-killing crops, put wasteland to work, build silos and warehouses to store food for lean years. Electricity lines are already snaking into the northeastern backlands, industry is getting tax reductions and other incentives to move in to make use of plentiful labor. Last year Furtado's planners handled 23 industrial expansion and improvement plans, this year already have 23 more worth $83 million...
When rumors spread throughout the oil world from Baghdad to Manhattan last week that Iraq, out of pique at Britain, was planning to nationalize its oil industry, worried oilmen instinctively turned their eyes to Rome, as Iraq's likeliest collaborator. There, in a modest Rome office, sits lean and nervous Enrico Mattei, 55, the chief of Italy's state-owned oil and gas monopoly, called E.N.I, (for Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi). By shrewdly bargaining with any government that wants to deal in oil, Mattei has made E.N.I, so powerful that Italians dub it "the state within the state...
...some are available on a you-rent-it basis), which feature refrigerators, butane or propane stoves, utensils, even hot and cold running water, showers, toilets and air conditioners (about $2,100). Farther down on the scale are specially designed tents that fit over the tail gates of station wagons, lean-to canvas that turns a car into a bedroom, tepees (the rangers' favorite), and pup tents for storage...
...offspring have earned $6,868,930 during the last five seasons; his dam was Debby Hanover, sired by Billy Direct. But Adios Butler was small and unimpressive-looking, and his owner, Horse Breeder Russel Carpenter, mayor of Chester, N.Y., figured he was a loser. Carpenter persuaded Paige West, a lean horse breeder and sulky driver from Snow Hill, Md., to try to bid the price up to $7,500. West opened the bidding at $6,000, was amazed when nobody challenged him. "I had bet Mr. Carpenter a new hat that the colt would bring at least $15,000," says...
...years, a lean Oklahoman named Paul Cadwell languished in Los Angeles' Veterans Administration Hospital, prisoner of the epilepsy that got him bounced out of the Navy. His self-confidence shaken, Cadwell could not face returning to the outside world. Now Cadwell is not only out of the hospital but enjoying a normal life. He earns $1.70 an hour in a small Los Angeles plant, has married an ex-WAC from Texas, lives in a middle-class bungalow, bowls on weekends...