Word: mill
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...Guayana region centers on the confluence of the Orinoco and Caronl Rivers in the southwest section of the country. In the area are rich deposits of iron and maganese ore, bauxite and petroleum. A steel mill is being built there and will be managed by Koppers, and the Reynolds Metal Company and the Venezuelan Government will build an aluminum plant...
...plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints-graduated from Tennessee's Lincoln Memorial University. Five years later, while teaching high school back home, Stuart memorialized his mountain kinfolk with an ingenuous, affecting book of colloquial sonnets, Man with a Bull-Tongue Plow. "I was not mastering poetry," he decided. "It was mastering me." Last week...
...necessity for a strong, healthy domestic production," said President Harry T. Vaughn* of Florida's biggest producer, United States Sugar Corp. The corporation is going to more than double its cane plantings in the next two years, to 65,000 acres, and put $20 million into a new mill and refinery. Within a few years, Florida's raw cane production is expected to be five times the 175,000 tons it is today. So confident are Florida producers, says Vaughn, that even though they could not meet their last year's quota, they will lobby hard with...
Switch from Vegetables. New growers are entering the industry. Some 300 farmers have banded into the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida, and by next year will have a $6,000,000 mill operating. Growing sugar, at yields of $200 an acre, is more profitable than riding the ups and downs of raising vegetables. Refugee sugarmen from Cuba are jumping into the Florida mucklands to start anew after Castro grabbed their Cuban holdings. The Florida Sugar Corp. is setting up two mills and planting 2,000 acres, with $6,000,000 from the Bacardi rum interests. Osceola Farms, backed...
...Grants of $28 million were extended to Cambodia in 1956 and 1958 to build a small iron-and-steel works and textile, plywood, cement and paper mills; only the textile mill and a radio station have been built...