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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MILLIONAIRE DORIS DUKE will go into the garbage business. For $1,350,000, "world's richest girl" will buy control of Pittsburgh's ailing Organic Corp. of America, which is operating a new process to turn "garbage to gold" in Pennsylvania by converting it into a black, sandlike fertilizer...
...present form it amounts to a national scandal. Designed to cope with the problem of farm surpluses, it brings on bigger surpluses by setting high price supports. Designed to keep small farmers from going broke when surpluses drag prices down, it actually helps the poorest farmers least and the richest most. Designed to bolster the health and welfare of agricultural communities, it has tempted many a farmer to sharp practices because "only suckers" would refuse to take advantage of the loopholes in the law. Designed to cut surpluses by subsidized sales of grain and cotton abroad, it is so rigged...
...safeguard minor sovereigns and sheiks around the gulf from wild tribal attacks out of the hinterland. The discovery of oil-or the hope of it-made this game of sand-dune diplomacy suddenly twice as important. What if the sheikdom of Kuwait, now the world's richest known oilfield, should sever its connections with Britain and the sterling area? Or if the same idea should occur to oil-rich Qatar and Bahrein, or those shadowy Trucial* Oman sheikdoms, whose rulers, like the Sultan of Muscat and Oman himself, reign over barren sand and hope for oil strikes...
Among the wild banana trees in the hills of Veracruz state, oil crews last week spudded in the second well of the richest Mexican oil strike in more than 20 years. Near by, the discovery well, which gushed 19,000 bbl. a day until it was choked down, was producing 1,200 bbl. a day for the government-run oil company Pemex (Petroleos Mexicanos). Capping a series of earlier achievements, the new field signified that Pemex, after the years of fumbling that followed its formation in 1938 from expropriated U.S. and British oil companies, had finally found...
...years ago, once powerful Brunei was a starving and disease-ridden nation of benighted tribesmen and headhunters, with a yearly income of only $80,000. At that time engineers from the British Malayan Petroleum Co., a Shell associate, were busy sinking exploratory shafts into what was to be the richest oilfield in the Commonwealth...