Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bananas still provide $38 million (or 40%) of the country's export earnings, but the highly successful Central American Common Market has stimulated a mushrooming cluster of small industries (paint, synthetic rubber, flour mills) on the Caribbean coast, where Mexican investors soon hope to build a $12.5 million steel mill using native ore and charcoal...
...Hospital, which includes such former chief executives as American Telephone's Cleo Craig, Texaco's Augustus C. Long, Jersey Standard's Monroe J. Rathbone, and B.B.D.&O.'s Bruce Barton, along with some distinctly unretired figures, such as General Motors' Frederic Donner and U.S. Steel's Roger Blough...
...nations placed substantial orders. Japanese businessmen were the biggest buyers, ordered $10 million worth of pig iron and iron ore and large quantities of soybeans and maize. Typically, though, they took home more money than they left behind, made deals to sell the Red Chinese $100 million worth of steel plate, stainless-steel tubing and heavy truck axles. In Peking this week, France will take its turn at supplying Red China's urgent demand. The French are opening a huge industrial exposition for which they carefully selected each exhibit to satisfy concrete interest expressed by potential Red customers...
...West African country's first modern iron-ore mine (3,000,000 tons in 1964), who discovered Liberia's mineral potential during World War II while serving as an officer in the U.S. Army Engineers, in 1946 began developing the deposits with early financing from Republic Steel, making himself such a fortune that in 1960 he was able to help bankroll Liberia's big Mano River iron-ore project with an interest-free loan of $1,700,000; after a short illness; in Syosset...
...Houston refinery, Shell Oil now purifies its used water so thoroughly that fish swim in a pond at the end of the process. Ford Motor Co. announced last month that it will spend $1,000,000 to scrub liquid wastes flowing into the Rouge River from its Dearborn steel plant. Four major steel firms recently agreed to spend $50 million over seven years to eliminate the 160 tons a year of red dust they now spew over every square mile of Chicago...