Word: piar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steel has spent $175 million developing Cerro Bolivar. Whole towns were built: Ciudad Piar at the mountain, Puerto Ordaz on the river. But now the payoff starts. The rich hematite and limonite (eventually 10 million tons a year) will feed the $400 million Fairless Works at Morrisville, Pa.-where the first ore will arrive next week...
...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...
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