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...best, Peru's stony Andes can support only marginal farming. Across the peaks lies the great, green montana, Peru's eastern lowland that stretches out to the Amazon and Brazil. The montana represents 62% of Peru's land area, is rich in rubber, jute, fruits, coffee, timber and grass for ranching. Yet it is home to barely 14% of Peru's people. The problem is accessibility. There are few roads and no railroads across the mountains; transportation is by air, or up the rivers...
...millions of acres of land that have been abandoned after being gouged and torn by strip mining. It also provides $41 million for hospital construction, $28 million for hospital maintenance, $16 million to construct vocational schools, $5,000,000 for water-resources studies, $5,000,000 to help develop timber resources, $6,000,000 for sewage-treatment systems, and $2,400,000 for administration...
...range of realty ventures is kaleidoscopic. Weyerhaeuser, the timber giant, is converting its forest holdings in five states into summer homes, lakefront recreation centers and even such ski resorts as Crystal Village, 76 miles from Seattle. Goodyear Tire & Rubber recently set aside $5,000,000 to speed the transformation of 14,000 acres of its property near Phoenix into Litchfield Park, which it hopes will become a satellite city of 90,000 people by 1985. Great Lakes Carbon Corp. is busy with six projects, ranging from a Houston industrial park to a resort and retirement center in Portugal. Hearst Corp...
...ending a regional monopoly in softwood plywood that the Douglas-fir-growing Pacific Northwest has enjoyed for decades. In the past year, three new mills have opened in Texas and Arkansas to make plywood from the faster-growing Southern pine. Weyerhaeuser Co., the world's biggest producer of timber products, is building a plant at Plymouth, N.C. Vancouver Plywood is at work on two plants in Louisiana, and at least eleven other firms are planning or building Southern plants and scrambling to tie up timber stands. Their total investment will come close to $100 million. Says U.S. Plywood President...
Plywood is migrating South partly to save freight (the South is nearer to most markets than the Northwest) and partly to take advantage of the South's rising supply of available timber, but it is a new technology that makes the move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...