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...SUPERHIGHWAY...
Fast-growing (pop. 202,000) Valencia owes its boom to a wide-awake municipal council that is luring industry by offering good facilities, a big labor pool, tax exemptions and political peace. Marking off 2,000 acres of bushland near the Caracas superhighway in 1959, the council first swung a $300,000 deal with Ford Motor Co., which took 104 acres for a new assembly plant. The council used the money plus its own funds to attract more industry by providing electric power, opening streets, digging drainage ditches. It also took pains to see that foreigners were well treated. When...
Reviving a project drawn up in 1889, Moch's plan calls for a 2O.5-mile-long bridge, supported by 164 huge pilings, built straight from Cap Gris-Nez to South Foreland. A single railway would run along either side with a five-lane superhighway in between. Slung on girders over each side would be two lanes for bicycles and service vehicles. With a clearance of 164 ft., the bridge would be high enough at all points to allow most ships to pass under. It would rise at several points to a 230-ft. clearance to accommodate U.S. supercarriers...
Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt took grim care to ensure the safety of Puerto Rico-born Moscoso. No arrival time was published in the press; inflammatory wall scribblings were quickly erased. The complement of 80 national guardsmen stationed along the superhighway from the airport to the capital was reinforced by 1,200 troops. Sirens screaming, 20 police cars escorted Moscoso to the embassy residence...
...onal Financiera, without apparent strain. When a projected four-lane highway from Mexico City to Querétaro lagged for lack of funds, Jenkins lent the contractors $25.6 million to finish the job, while at the same time offering the government $80 million to help finance a new superhighway from Puebla to Mexico City. Among his reported holdings today: the Bank of Commerce, textile mills, cement plants, an automobile assembly plant, finance companies and a soap factory...