Word: kure
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barge-borne plant was towed by tugboat through the 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...