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Decadent Peoples? The trip began dramatically at the yawning, man-made canyons of the Mesabi iron-ore range, where miners were washing down bedrock with hoses to extract the shrinking deposits of ore. The Congressmen heard estimates that the Mesabi's reserves would last as little as five years longer. They found Mesabi mining men unanimously convinced that the seaway is necessary to bring Labrador ore to U.S. steel mills. Said Major General Lewis Pick, U.S. Army chief of engineers,* who accompanied the Congressmen: "Any man who opposes this undertaking should prepare to make peace with his Maker...
...project. It has built a highway, a railway (the only standard gauge in Venezuela) and three communities in the jungle. Bethlehem thinks the money well spent; its Venezuelan beds hold an estimated 60 million tons of ore, which is richer than the fast-vanishing deposits in Minnesota's Mesabi Range...
...point of Labrador iron ore alone, Western strategists shudder to think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...
...contract with Israel to build an auto assembly plant in Haifa. In Latin America, considered an "undeveloped" area by Point Four planners, some of the biggest U.S. companies were hard at work. In Venezuela, U.S. Steel Corp. had discovered ore deposits of higher iron content than Mesabi's; it planned to spend at least $200 million mining the ore and shipping it to its U.S. plants. Bethlehem Steel Corp. was also at work in Venezuela. By spending some $50 million on its El Pao open-pit mine, which has reserves of at least 60 million tons, Bethlehem hoped...
Pittsburgh in the 20th Century was a noisy, grimy giant sprawled across a coal seam, gobbling up ore from Mesabi and spewing out molten steel. It squatted, black and ugly, on the hills between the Allegheny and the Monongahela, trailing mill towns up & down its river valleys. It dug the coal and fed it into fiery furnaces, and strewed the mountainous offal of its furnaces across its landscape...