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...leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser's high dam: $1.5 billion...
MINING & MANUFACTURING. Boost coal production; up iron-ore exports, now 1,600,000 tons a year, to 10,000,000 tons. Promote manufacture of locomotives and heavy machinery; create an auto industry that will produce 100,000 cars, jeeps and trucks a year...
...fact, getting far more aid than conference rules allow. Source of their incomes: a downtown "slush fund" administered by Washington's most energetic alumnus, Roscoe C. ("Torchy") Torrance, a printing-company executive and concessionaire. Contributions from Husky rooters fleshed out the fund, but last year its biggest boost came from a $26,000 slice of the take from a pro football game staged in the university's stadium. With capital sometimes as high as $75,000, Torchy was able to slip grateful athletes fat checks. Out of the fund came the price of plane tickets home, vacations...
COLOR-TV OUTLOOK is so good that RCA is converting some of its black and white production lines to color, will boost production 500% to 120 sets an hour. Forecast: more than 200,000 RCA sets this year v. about 30,000 for the entire industry last year...
Though few U.S. firms do business with the Reds (total U.S.-Soviet bloc trade in 1955: about $5,000,000), European nations have used the liberalized embargo list to boost exports 27% in the last twelve months, while increasing imports by only...