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Peru lost an estimated $40 million, chiefly in cotton, when drought struck six of its 24 departments early last year; it allocated another $10 million in relief and public-works projects to employ suffering campesinos. Ecuador saw parts of Manabi and Loja provinces charred, with an estimated $50 million in losses, mainly in coffee and rice. In Argentina's Patagonia region, woolmen estimate that the drought has taken the lives of at least 200,000 sheep. But Chile's plight is by far the worst of the nations in the area. If the drought there does...
Isle of Gold. Ray was not alone in the unusual claim. A competing company, Atlantis Development Corp., had started dredging and filling operations on the same off-Florida reefs for a $250 million "Atlantis Isle of Gold." The rival investors planned to build government offices, a radio-TV station, a national mint and maybe even a gambling casino...
Atlanta prides itself on being a city of culture as well as wealth, and last October it put its most prestigious culture under one $13 million roof: the Atlanta Memorial Arts Center.* The big glass and concrete structure on Peachtree Street was hailed as the only one of the nation's arts centers to house res ident companies in repertory theater, opera, ballet and symphony - as well as an art museum, and an art library and school...
...solution of those problems that the design evolves," said Becket. And from his drawing board came buildings for ten of the U.S.'s top industrial firms, six of its leading banking houses and five of its largest insurance companies, as well as plans for Los Angeles' $34 million Music Center and the 275-acre Century City. All told, he was responsible for $4 billion worth of construction during his 40-year career...
...many ways, the most successful modern American industrial enterprise is International Business Machines Corp. Its primary field, high-speed data processing, is barely 20 years old, but IBM has risen to rank among the ten biggest U.S. companies, with 1968 sales of $6.9 billion and profits of $871 million. With a reputation for excellent technology, marketing and servicing, it dominates the computer business at home and abroad. The company's smoothly aggressive and generously rewarded salesmen have captured about 74% of the U.S. market. Investors value IBM's prospects so highly that its 112.7 million shares are worth...