International development

The village of Mayan, Iran has a more modern, sanitary water system, with faucets such as this every few hundred feet throughout the village. This water system, an improvement over the seepage from a polluted creek, was built with the assistance of the Point Four Program and the Technical Cooperation Administration.

Near the village of Mayan, Iran, unidentified villagers are constructing a standpipe for a well, using reclaimed bricks and an old gasoline truck tank as a water reservoir. The shallow well was constructed with the assistance of the Point Four program and the Technical Cooperation Administration so that villagers would have a better source of clean water.

William B. Mabee, an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture, examines a handful of dead locusts in the desert area of Pakistan where locusts breed. Mr. Mabee directed a Point Four program conducted jointly by the governments of Pakistan and the United States to control a locust plague. Control measures consisted of aerial spraying of insecticide and hand-spreading poisoned bait.

Stanley Andrews is sworn in as the head of the Technical Cooperation Administration. From left to right: Stanley Andrews; William Simmons, State Department Chief of Protocol; and Dean Acheson, Secretary of State.

William E. Warne, head of the Technical Cooperation for Iran (right), examines baby chicks imported from the United States through the Point Four Program in cooperation with the Government of Iran for its livestock improvement program. All other men in the photo are unidentified.

This is an example of the classic plow of India. It scratches without actually turning the soil. The new-type plow being introduced all over India does a better job. The government of India and the Point Four Program cooperated in the community development program to help improve agriculture, health, and education in India.

Near the village of Mayan, Iran, unidentified villagers are harvesting building materials from an ancient caravan station to construct a standpipe for a well. The shallow well was constructed with the assistance of the Point Four program and the Technical Cooperation Administration so that villagers would have a better source of clean water.

A county agricultural agent near Puno, Peru shows farmers how to inoculate alpacas for the control of internal parasites as part of a program sponsored by the Point Four Program. All are unidentified.

Color photo taken at the 20th anniversary luncheon of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank). The people are unidentified. From: George D. Woods, Office of the President, World Bank.