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...Potash & Planes. In 1951, Bedas set up Intra (cable code for International Traders) with initial capital...
Budgeting for continuing U.S. aid through 1966. Wasfi Tal wants to spend $357 million to make Jordan self-sufficient in food, develop its small potash and phosphate industry, increase its annual tourist earnings from $11 million to $50 million, and provide new jobs for 90,000 unemployed. He pledges that Jordan's notoriously inefficient civil service will be overhauled from top to bottom...
...expanding network of dams, power stations, storage lakes and irrigation canals that will stir to life huge, drowsing areas of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Industry is moving into the area. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. is building the world's largest mine-and-mill potash project at Cane Creek, Utah; San Francisco Chemical Co. will dig and process phosphates near Vernal, Utah...
Cars driving along the new expressway that knifes into the city from the north were stoned and shot at. White taxi driv ers venturing into the Negro section were burned by potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white filling station, got shot in the head himself and was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole. Negro gangs gave up fighting among themselves, banded together against the common enemy and roamed the streets looking for trouble. In a single day 50 people were injured...
...there was "a good chance" that his organization would give the Israeli economy another boost by lending Israel $27.5 million toward construction of a $46 million Mediterranean harbor at the old Philistine port of Ashdod. The port would handle Israel's growing citrus trade, as well as products (potash, phosphates and other minerals) now being extracted in growing volume from the Negev desert...