Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other big problems are power and transportation. Brazil's Amazon development board has built or is building plant to boost power by 61,000 kw. It has cut roads into millions of empty acres and most important, has connected the Amazon basin to the rest of Brazil by a 1,363 mile jungle highway from Belém south to the new capital of Brasilia...
...Adults plant a child's garden of verse. Juvenile satire nourishes it. What British children did to The Ballad of Davy Crockett in 1956 should make Walt Disney shudder. Not a vestige remained of the 17 official verses. New versions ranged from "Born on a table top in Joe's café,/ The dirtiest place in the U.S.A." to "Born on a rooftop in Battersea/ Joined the Teds when he was only three...
...could not shave themselves. Bathrooms were locked, and patients could not go to them unattended. Knives and forks were banned from the dining halls, so patients had to eat with spoons. No smoking was allowed. Ward windows were barred and curtainless. There were no mirrors, no flower vases, no plant pots, no bottles, no water glasses...
...Mother Hubbards (when they were not undressing themselves) sat listless, sometimes in their own excrement. Instead there is modern, comfortable furniture. Windows, no longer barred, have gay curtains or draperies with drawstrings. Instead of glaring ceiling lights, there are bridge and table lamps. Glass vases hold cut flowers. Plant stands are loaded with potted violets. Glass tumblers and bottles-potentially lethal weapons-are all over. Each ward has its full-length mirror...
...CUSTOMERS will increase to 44.5 million by end of 1970 v. 31.2 million in 1958, predicts American Gas Association. Industry expects its plant and equipment nearly to triple in value to $49 billion by that time and total sales to reach $11.8 billion, v. $4.6 billion...