Word: planted
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...area that desperately needs industrialization. Their engineers have started work on a dam on the Euphrates that will supply electricity to much of Syria, and are prospecting for oil in Egypt. In all, Soviet teams are engaged in 100 or so major projects, including the construction of a steel plant in Algeria, a railroad in Iraq, a machine-tool plant in Iran, and a fish-meal factory in Yemen. Russian culture follows the Red flag. In Alexandria, young girls are quitting belly-dance classes and attending the recently opened Russian ballet school instead. Soviet folk-dance groups and circus troupes...
...tables. Now he has launched several show projects, including a "Che Guevara Invader Brigade" to open up more than 150,000 acres for farming in central Cuba by stamping out the ubiquitous Marabu weed, and a campaign to clear a 100,000-acre "belt" of land around Havana and plant it with fruits and vegetables. Many workers have no choice about where or when they labor. Army troops, militiamen, bureaucrats and even cabinet ministers are expected to "volunteer" for field work. Those who do not often wind up on forced-labor details, and are sent off to the fields...
...longer afford the luxury of ignorance about the ocean bottom. Marine "farming" of fish and plant life may eventually be essential to feed the world's burgeoning population. As deposits of minerals, oil and gas are depleted, the virtually untapped resources lying on and beneath the ocean floor become increasingly attractive to industry. In 2,500,000 sq. mi. of offshore area, the U.S. alone has petroleum reserves estimated at 3.2 trillion...
...Swiss firm will build at least two, and possibly four, mammoth 4,800-ton turbines, each able to generate an unprecedented 1,100,000 kw. to 1,300,000 kw. of power. The first is to be installed at a nuclear plant in St. Joseph, Mich., by 1973. Altogether, four of the firm's "turbosets" could increase by more than 50% the power now produced by the 30 generating stations in American Electric's seven-state, Virginia-to-Michigan system...
...second largest company (after Nestlé), and it took the orders as a long-sought U.S. show of confidence. Brown, Boveri is hardly a household name; yet B.B.C., as it is known, has long generated wide respect for its heavy electrical equipment. Brown, Boveri's parent plant in Baden, near Zurich, depends on exports for 73% of its $146 million sales, which in turn are only a fraction of the company's global business. It has 17 manufacturing subsidiaries worldwide: 76,000 employees in 40 plants and 250 field offices make and sell turbines and locomotives, heavy transformers...