Word: orinoco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spanish hacienda near the Orinoco River, a U.S. Steel Corp. engineer named Folke Kihlstedt slowly pushed a stereoscopic viewer over some three-dimensional aerial photographs. A long, low, narrow mountain seemed to spring out of the paper toward him. To his trained eye, the vegetation, watercourses and the hues of the earth were meaningful. "That could be iron ore," he decided...
...first were arriving this month) will scoop up blasted ore and load it on to trucks which will carry it to the railway (now being built). The 10,000-ton ore trains will roll through the chaparral 90 miles northeast to the black Caroni River, tributary of the Orinoco. For the workers a new town, Ciudad Piar, is sprouting at the foot of Cerro Bolívar, and a new port, Puerto Ordaz, has already been built on the Caroni...
Iron mining will yield Venezuela no such fabulous income as she gets from oil ($525 million last year). U.S. Steel thinks that the country will benefit mainly from 1) employment, a steady 3,000 after mining starts, 2) opening of the Orinoco to deep-sea ships, and 3) an investment expected to total $200 million, much of it spent in Venezuela...
...their race with a changing world had to keep on right up to the last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest spot in the Pacific-both too late to make the final deadline...
...that dank forest where the Orinoco is a turbulent but puny brook, numerous tributaries tumble through the Parima Mountains. By measuring the varying rates of flow of these mountain streams, Major Rísquez Iribarren's men determined what they are sure is the true path of the river. Their observations also located the source of the Orinoco at Lat. 2° 18 min. North, Long. 63° 15 min. West, a few miles to the west of where...