Word: orissa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mill, in Rourkela in the state of Orissa, is being built with the help of German capital and engineers. The other is the Soviet-designed Bhilai steel mill, rising, a month behind schedule, on what was once a wilderness on the sun-scorched plain of central India. To a large extent, the two mills-along with one more being built with British help and another with American, each of 1,000,000 ingot ton capacity-represent the chief hope of India's shaky economy. They are also playing a significant role in the complicated drama of the cold...
...Indian Finance Minister T. T. Krishnamachari signed an agreement with the Soviet Union for a twelve-year $125 million loan, and last week West German Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard was on the verge of okaying $143 million in credits toward construction of a new steel plant in iron-rich Orissa. Other loans may come from Japan and the Colombo Plan nations...
...Projects from underdeveloped countries eager for foreign capital were produced by the hatful. India is ready to open its great bamboo forest in the Mysore province for paper and pulp production if it can get $8,500,000 in foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign capital to build a $3,700,000 brick and ceramic factory, which after two years should yield a tax-free dividend of 10%. Puerto Rico has a private investor who wants capital for a $2,000,000 tire plant. Thailand needs a cannery...
...India's second general election, kept telling his audiences. But there were obstacles. In Uttar Pradesh the citizens of 14 villages hidden away in the foothills of the Himalayas decided, after listening to candidates, that voting was "just not worth the long walk." In the thick jungles of Orissa, the prevalence of stampeding wild elephants kept all but the most venturesome of the electorate at home. And at least one Orissan who dutifully set out for the polls never made it: he was killed en route by a tiger...
...India's foreign policy to audience after audience of backwoods illiterates. "Long live Nehru," shouted the crowds, pleased and happy to have had a glimpse of the great man. To many of them, India, the Congress Party and Nehru were one and the same thing; in tiger-plagued Orissa an election crowd of loinclothed tribesmen and their nose-ringed women startled political reporters by referring to Nehru as the King...