Word: orinoco
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VENEZUELAN STEEL will be competing with the U.S. product for South American markets within the next few years. Venezuela has signed a $128 million contract with Italy's Fiat Motor Car Co. to build the country's first big steel plant on the Orinoco River near the big Cerro Bolivar iron ore deposits. To be completed in late 1957, new plant will have an eventual capacity of 421,000 tons of steel annually...
...Venezuelans are scattered from the mouth of the Orinoco to Maracaibo, but nearly two-thirds of them live in Caracas, where they help to create an atmosphere of hustle and bustle rare in Latin America. From the equator to the Rio Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude...
...null mountain of ore was discovered seven years ago in a worldwide iron search by U.S. Steel Corp. Since then, Orinoco Mining Co., U.S. Steel's Venezuelan subsidiary, has been working on the problems of how to get the stuff out of such a remote, tropical place. Cerro Bolivar ore coats the top of the mountain like a turtle shell. It is brought down in 93-car trains which have to be eased cautiously down a 3% grade for nine miles under smoking brakes. Against the chance that the brakes might fail, special sidetracks were built to switch...
...mile dredged channel in the Orinoco, built (and paid for) by U.S. Steel to let ore ships reach the upriver iron mines, but destined to open southeast Venezuela to commerce...
...that point, the picture has at least the charm of a kind of exotic silliness-rather like finding the underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalogue floating gravely along the upper Orinoco...