Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The World Bank (a loan pool of 54 nations, started at Bretton Woods, N.H. in 1944) said that the money would go into 27 construction and development programs in electric power, coal mining, extraction and processing of nonferrous metals, iron and steel, some manufacturing industries, forestry and transportation. Most projects...
Cousteau's basic message: an appeal for an organized attempt by modern science and industry to conquer the sea as they have conquered the land and the air. He calls for better diving equipment, the ultimate systematic farming and mining of the sea to increase the world supply of food...
Then why do foundations make the mistakes they do? Said Secretary Moe: "Senator Guggenheim,* as you know, was a miner, a mining man, and he understood what a grubstake was . . . He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances. You act on the best evidence you'...
* The late Simon Guggenheim, a Jewish immigrant's son who, with his six brothers, built up the American Smelting and Refining Co. into one of the world's great mining empires, served as U.S. Senator from Colorado from 1907 to 1913. A lavish Lord Bountiful ("Have a new...
Last week the picturesque, landlocked mountain republic of Bolivia was back on the map as never before in its obscure but violent 127-year history. Climaxing a long and bloody struggle, a new revolutionary government had nationalized the country's three big tin companies and placed their mines under...