Word: landing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans were left up the creek in the fight against rising prices." To itemize that metaphor, the two sailors paid only $3 for their trip, while the presidential excursion cost several thousand. The pair also launched a new political organization called Women U.S.A. and urged their sisters across the land to ship their household bills, once paid, to Congress as a protest. Somehow, however, the ladies of the lake look becalmed...
...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 is under way that will clear the land of old growth and establish huge new timber farms. The principal planting is the Gmelina arborea (pronounced malina ar-bor-ea), a hardwood native to Burma and India that grows to 15 in. in diameter in five years and 30 in twelve, or roughly twice as fast as the southern...
...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 than $1 an acre...
...such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead of to another southern continent, was that on the contrary, it was not a clean slate, not neutral ground. The myth of blackness, darkness, this 'land of sorrow,' might be a sounding board. 'Before the Congo I was just a mere animal,' Joseph Conrad said...
...agreement would give the University more than $600,000 in exchange for land easements in the Square and the cost of soundproofing University buildings bordering on Mass...