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...Land. Twice as big as Louisiana, and watered by the crocodile-haunted Volta River, the Gold Coast includes: 1) the Crown Colony proper, a strip of steaming forest along the surf-beaten coast; 2) the Kingdom of Ashanti, astride the interior plateau; and 3) the Northern Territories. The North is a sun-baked wasteland, many of whose primitive people live in holes in the ground; their women go naked, with a tuft of leaves before and behind...
...plans call for 1) damming of the Volta river to provide a continuous 560,000 kilowatts, 2) building smelters to extract an annual 120,000 long tons of aluminum from local bauxite, 3) building a new harbor at Tema, 20 miles east of Accra. A government commission will work out an agreement between the British and Gold Coast governments, and British and Canadian aluminum companies; after that, the British will put up $121 million. The aluminum will replace about one-third of British purchases from dollar areas...
...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...where fishermen's cottages had stood, workmen were building the blast furnace and rolling mills of Huachipato, the No. 2 steel plant in Latin America (No. 1: Brazil's Volta Redonda). Where fishermen had spread their nets to dry, there was an 890-ft. dock. Modern brick houses for 4,000 workers were springing up in a planned industrial city which Chileans proudly compared to Oak Ridge...
...Shot in the Arm. Huachipato's pig-iron capacity of 205,000 metric tons makes it only half as big as Volta Redonda, and tiny by Pittsburgh standards. But the 235,000 tons of steel it is expected to turn out each year when full production is reached will make Chile virtually self-sufficient in steel...