Word: pao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel Corp. had discovered ore deposits of higher iron content than Mesabi's; it planned to spend at least $200 million mining the ore and shipping it to its U.S. plants. Bethlehem Steel Corp. was also at work in Venezuela. By spending some $50 million on its El Pao open-pit mine, which has reserves of at least 60 million tons, Bethlehem hoped to be ready in late 1951 to ship out about 2,400,000 tons a year...
...across the street. Inside headquarters, beneath a gigantic portrait of Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung, more than a score of Hong Kong labor leaders smoked, drank endless cups of green tea and offered their sympathy to the locked-out trolley employees. A headline in the pro-Communist Ta Rung Pao set the tone. It read: "Friendly Love Will Support the Tramway Workers." Outside, restless crowds chanted a Communist song to the tune of "John Brown's Body...