Word: ores
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Portland, Ore...
...self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher in 1956, figures the Niger Delta swamps contain reserves of perhaps...
...year-old Ghana, whose economy is almost wholly agricultural, the Volta dam and smelter combination could well provide the springboard to a miniature industrial revolution. Ghana's chief resources are the tremendous hydroelectric power potential of the Volta River and a large supply of bauxite ore from which aluminum can be extracted if large amounts of electricity are available. When Ghana was still a British colony and called the Gold Coast, British engineers drew up a plan for a dam and smelter works costing $900 million. It was more than newly independent Ghana could afford. Kaiser drew...
Okla. (8) 534,758 369,174 59.2 Ore...
People back home in Portland, Ore. have long ago given up trying to figure Baker out. His father left home when Terry was seven, and he was raised by his mother, who put two other sons through college by working as a Teamster on the loading platform of a Sears, Roebuck store. In high school Baker was almost too good to be true. He was an A student. As a high-scoring forward, he took his basketball team to two city championships. Throwing with his right arm, he pitched his baseball team to victory in the state finals. Passing with...