Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Valley Exit. The integration had been promised in the November 1957 agreement between the government and the rebel Pathet Lao, who then controlled two of the nation's northern provinces under the leadership of Prince Souphanouvong, pro-Red cousin of the King of Laos. "I signed the agreement," said the prince. "I guarantee it will be respected. If the Pathet Lao battalions don't respect the agreement, I no longer consider them friends." To the Laotian government and the army, integration meant that the Communist troops would be parceled out in small numbers among the other troops...
Money & Motels. As a civil servant, Mattei was appointed head of Mussolini's nearly defunct oil exploration agency in 1945, with orders to liquidate it. Instead he poured money into research and discovered vast fields of natural gas in the Po Valley. Today ENI gas, pumped through 3,100 miles of ENI's own pipelines, supplies 2,500,000 Italian families and 2,000 factories...
Trout & Charity. These successes conceal Mattei's bleak record in oil development. He has driven private oil-producing firms out of Italy, and while neglecting oil exploration in the promising Po Valley, he has scattered his capital around the Middle East, acquiring concessions in Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Somaliland, with little to show for it. He benefits from laws left over from fascism, which give his state organizations monopolistic power...
...Charles Canfield, and with pick and shovel they dug a 4-ft. by 6-ft. shaft 165 ft. down into the nearby tar pits, struck a field that was to flow more than 70 million bbl., lead to the discovery of another 6 billion bbl. in the San Joaquin valley and the production of hundreds of millions for Canfield and Doheny...
...them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas ten years ago; today caravans of autos tow runabouts and outboard cruisers 361 miles from Wichita to Oklahoma's Lake Texoma. The seven-state Tennessee Valley region accommodated fewer than 10,000 boats on 24 TVA-created lakes in 1947; last year the count ran to more than 45,000. Denver had five fulltime boat dealers two years ago; 49 are making a good living today. The boom has also brought with it 10,000 service facilities...