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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...
Ludwig's fortune is based on foresight; after World War II, he built the first supertanker in Japan and devised the means to finance ships through long-term charters. Recalls a former aide: "Often he just sits in his office and thinks three or five years down the road." In the 1950s Ludwig began pondering the world's increasing use, and dwindling supply, of pulp and timber. After surveying sites in Venezuela and elsewhere he settled on Brazil, in part because he found an immense tract for the right price. He bought the land in 1967 for less...
Ludwig has built barracks for ordinary laborers as well as fancier bungalows for the technical and managerial staff. But he cut back substantially on plans for additional housing, especially for the lowest-paid workers. Result: squalid slum towns, inhabited partly by whores and thieves, have sprung up near the sites, and many workers live in unsanitary and unsavory conditions. At first, Ludwig relied entirely on Brazilian contractors to supply laborers, and some of the bosses exploited their men and skimmed off their wages. Now Ludwig has set up safeguards to ensure that the workers receive their full pay, which averages...
Lyman said the building is well suited for the area, with the squash courts and much of the center built into the hill...
...philosopher of language," Jerome H. Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, said yesterday. "He was at times a difficult and abstruse critic--he built bridges between philosophy and literary theory," he added...