Word: pasco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government has yet to catch up with him. Communist-organized trade unionists and students have staged riots, and Red agitators work to turn relatively peaceful strikes into bloody free-for-alls. Striking miners recently burned and sacked a lead and zinc complex belonging to the U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco Corp., causing $4,000,000 damage...
...themselves along the inland waterways. Such proud East Coast seaports as New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore are losing cargo tonnage, but river and canal ports steadily gain. Brownsville, Texas, in 1961 handled an astounding 4,100,000 tons of cotton, chemicals, citrus fruit and coffee. Columbia River towns like Pasco and Umatilla have become blossoming grain ports. Biggest winner of all is bustling New Orleans, which in 1961 boosted its cargo business 8% to a record 61.3 million tons. Serving as the connecting point between the Mississippi River complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, New Orleans boasts that at least...