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Word: honeybucket (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1970
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...worsened Tokyo's housing shortage, its snarled traffic, and the soot that boils in across the brown Sumida River from the blast furnaces of Kawasaki, which has 3,000 industrial plants and a population of 940,000. Two-thirds of Tokyo is still without sewers; residents are served by "honeybucket" men, trucks and a "night-soil fleet" of disposal ships, some as big as 1,000 tons, that make daily dumping trips offshore. "Don't worry," a crewman smiles, "the Black Current will take it all toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward the Japanese Century | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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