Word: reynosa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...been paid on the $167 million indemnification to the former owners. And now Pemex is rapidly expanding into the profitable new fields of fertilizers, plastics and synthetic rubber-all from petrochemical byproducts of oil processing. From the jungles south of Veracruz to the arid, sun-baked flats of Reynosa just across the U.S. border, 18 petrochemical plants have gone up since 1959, and another 22 are abuilding. By 1966, says one Pemex official, petrochemicals will be the country's second biggest industry-surpassed only by oil itself...