Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towering plant was built in Japan and towed in two sections last year to Brazil's interior, where it began start-up operations six months ago. The centerpiece of an industrial and agricultural complex of audacious scope and cost, the plant stands on a company-owned property of about 5,800 sq. mi., which is larger than Connecticut. The pulp factory and its ancillaries cost $400 million to construct. A companion plant is expected to be towed up the river and put in operation by the mid-1980s. To feed the plants with young trees, a vast reforestation...
...world of print provides only part of the evidence of sharpening interest in the war. Novels such as The Boys from Brazil, The Eagle Has Landed and Soldier of Orange have found their way into the movies, and Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle is about to-even as he puts together yet another World War II saga. If World War II films have naturally been less numerous than books, they have also-ever since George C. Scott swaggered across the screen in Patton in 1970-tended to be more spectacular and ambitious. TV is cluttered with World...
...when the bond-rating agencies downgraded the company's credit and thus effectively prevented it from raising any further funds in the public markets, Chrysler has had to live off its own flesh and bone. Following earlier sales of some or all of its interests in France, Britain, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, the company in the past few months has announced the closing of two U.S. plants...
Best known is the diluted variant called gasohol, the blend of 90% gasoline and 10% alcohol that is sold in the U.S. at more than 1,000 service stations, and is widely available in Brazil in an even richer mixture of 20% ethanol and 80% gasoline. Now, however, a number of alky-boosters are touting the virtues of using the ethanol undiluted. Besides being out of OPEC's control, the fuel can be made in backyard stills that can cost as little as a few hundred dollars to build and almost nothing to operate...
...gasoline consumption. As output of alcohol rises to meet demand, its high cost-commercially distilled pure alcohol now sells for as much as $1.85 per gal.-will come down, making the price competitive with gasoline's. Eventually, alky fans hope, the U.S. will catch up with Brazil: by the early 1980s some 15% of all automobile fuel used there will be straight alcohol...