Word: liberian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liberian expedition is the latest project of Robert Gilmour LeTourneau, 63, a missionary-minded businessman and one of the world's biggest makers of earth-moving equipment. Twenty years ago, LeTourneau made what he calls "a deal with God" to turn over 90% of his personal earnings and a sizable block of company stock to the Lord's work. The partnership has been successful. Last year, on sales of $55 million, R. G. LeTourneau, Inc. netted $3,100,000. Excluding LeTourneau's personal contributions, God's share, which was turned over to the interdenominational LeTourneau Foundation...
...Earth-Mover LeTourneau has never been satisfied just to fill the financial side of his bargain. After a trip to Liberia in 1951, he decided that the best way to teach the Gospel to the natives was to teach them American technical skills at the same time. From the Liberian government LeTourneau leased 500,000 acres of jungle for 80 years at 6? an acre, laid plans to cultivate the land with such crops as rice, grapefruit, bananas and palms, cut down and export mahogany. He agreed to pour back the first five years' profits into the development. With...
...mechanical equipment to Africa, including a 22-ton machine that can shear off big trees like a scythe cutting grass and a self-contained sawmill unit which will be hauled by the biggest bulldozer in the world. LeTourneau insists that he is not primarily interested in profit in his Liberian adventure. Nor does he want to create mere "rice Christians." Says he: "I am trying to do a missionary job in a businesslike...
Ernest F. Gamache--Executive director, American Foundation for Tropical Medicine and the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine. Works in Liberia...
Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, U.S.A. (retired), Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, will deliver a dedication address today at the Liberian Institute of the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, in Liberia...