Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Guards burned Bibles in the streets of Shanghai for several afternoons. When boredom set in, the surviving stock was sent off to a pulping plant. In Xiamen (Amoy), a similar burning took place but with a sinister twist: Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. workers were forced to kneel by the books until their cheeks and hands blistered from the fire. All over China, church buildings were pillaged, closed down or turned into warehouses. Chinese Christians were often tortured or killed if they did not repudiate their beliefs. At the height of the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution, the last eight Western Christian workers...
...Casner and Ralph Henry Gabriel, junior high school children were encouraged to report to the FBI anyone they suspected of "Communist activity." Still, the old heroes lingered on -Custer, Robert E. Lee, "the friendly Indian, Squanto," who welcomed the Plymouth Rock Pilgrims in 1620 and showed them how to plant corn...
...endless green of the Amazon rain forest, forbidding, primeval, untamed. Then, on a remote bend of the Jari River, a fast-flowing tributary, the vista changes dramatically. There, as tall as a 16-story building, stands a monument to modern engineering: a brand-new, spanking-white pulp plant, which reaches out with ducts, cables and conveyor belts to a wood-chipping mill, a chemical factory and a power generating facility...
...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 mellowness. The Jari project is approaching the crucial second stage of development. The present pulp mill is planned eventually to turn out 750 metric tons daily, making it moderately large by world standards. If the project is to be fully successful, Ludwig needs to install another plant, which might process pulp into newsprint. Luckily, large deposits of kaolin, a white mineral used in papermaking, have been found on the Jari property...