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...region was well worth a look: the rugged, isolated mountain country spanning the Russian-Turkish border and stretching eastward to the Caspian Sea may be the strategic key to the whole troubled Middle East. This land (see map) is Kurdistan. It is split up among five sovereign nations (Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq), but in the minds of the 4,000,000 fierce Kurdish tribesmen who live there, it is one country. It lies like a great, clumsy sickle over the Middle East, the handle anchored in the mountains near the Persian Gulf, the top of the blade resting...
With their two pieces of earth-moving equipment, a foundation gang last week pushed a rough track (see map) through the jungle at the rate of half a mile a day. The foundation's goal is a road running 1,100 miles across the Amazonian basin to Manaus, and linking the river by land with Brazil's industrial metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled...
...ready to build the longest (1,605 miles) and costliest (more than $140 million) pipeline in the U.S. It will be the only pipeline carrying refined petroleum products (gasoline, kerosene, heating oil, etc.) all the way from Texas Gulf refineries to the vast markets on the East Coast (see map). The Government considered the project so urgent to defense that it granted Ryan and his U.S. Pipe Line Co. a fast tax write-off on 25% of the construction cost, and gave him priorities for 211,000 tons of steel-equal to 16 hours output by the entire U.S. steel...
...able to get about on crutches, and took a wartime desk job in Washington, where he helped map postwar plans for the Petroleum Industry War Council. When the Government-built Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines were declared surplus property at war's end, Ryan formed U.S. Pipe Line to bid on them. He lost out to a higher bid from Texas Eastern Transmission, which now uses them for natural gas. But Ryan was convinced that there was still a big need for a transcontinental line, and decided to build...
...report this week on the Missouri Valley is the largest color-picture supplement ever to appear in TIME: eight pages, including a two-page map, with a two-page story about the valley -breadbasket and problem child...