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...giant pulp mill for the Amazon wilderness...
Longer than two football fields, taller than a 16-story building, the off-white structure floating up the Amazon looked like a jungle apparition. In fact, it was a huge paper factory that Daniel K. Ludwig, the secretive shipping, mining and real estate industrialist whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $3 billion, intends to use in exploiting 500,000 acres of timberland that he owns in the Brazilian wilderness...
...Indian and Atlantic oceans on a 15,000-mile, 93-day voyage from Kure, Japan, where it had been built by Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (I.H.I.). In Brazil, it was taken to a docking area that had been constructed by 2,500 workers on the Jari River, an Amazon tributary 250 miles inland. The factory and its separate 55,000-kw power plant was floated into position over 4,000 submerged pilings last month. Then water under the pilings was drained, and Brazil's Munguba district, which before Ludwig was little more than a swatch of forest...
...album of letters on her lap. "Now, you'll be sweet to me," he exclaimed. "Now you'll go to bed with me. Look what a lovely bed it is ... I thought I was impotent. I have been for months. But you have roused me, you marvelous amazon. Let me kiss your lips." Curtiss put quest before scruple: "After all, I figured, the letters are unique and there are plenty of women who must like this kind of approach or he wouldn't have continued using it." In fact, the chore was less onerous than...
...1980s, which would add to the nation's trade deficit because fabricators would be forced to import more and more aluminum. Says one exasperated industry leader: "Looking at the way they handle the power situation in this country, it sort of makes you think about places like the Amazon, where they don't' have quite the same bunch of clowns." The aluminum producers are indeed looking to Brazil and Australia, which have plentiful supplies of cheap power and bauxite, as places to expand production in the years ahead...