Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad reached Anapolis and the town became the gateway to Brazil's rapidly growing west. Now Anapolis, with 15,000 rough-&-ready, gun-toting citizens, is as full of gusty confidence as west Texas. In the hinterland, droves of farmers are rushing in to buy up cheap land, plant corn, rice and beans...
...steam engine and a 20-kilowatt generator. A sizable industry has grown up around Larderello, producing borax, carbon dioxide and ammonia as well as power. Italian geologists believe that the output, both of chemicals and power, can be increased considerably, hence the new power plant...
During the war, Germany's Aluminum-werke Tscheulin turned out aluminum foil used by the Nazis to confuse Allied radars.* Last week, the plant's machinery-1,350 tons in 1,100 crates-lay on San Francisco's docks; it had been shipped to the U.S. as reparations under the Potsdam Agreement. The buyer, Henry J. Kaiser, moved the machinery out on 60 flatcars for reassembly at his Permanente Metals Corp., at Los Altos. By January, he hopes to begin turning out 500,000 pounds a month of foil for cigarettes...
...found few other takers for its share of reparations, small though it is (8.9% of what is taken out of Western Germany). Most U.S. businessmen do not think they are worth buying. Much of the equipment is worn out. Though the German plants are cheap, U.S. buyers must pay the high transportation costs to the U.S. Three companies submitted bids for the aluminum plant and Kaiser got it for only $203,000. The cost of moving it was another $100,000. Before the plant is producing, Kaiser will have spent an estimated $1,000,000. But Kaiser, who would have...
...wobbly French press is no longer either powerful or corrupt. No foreign power can plant a campaign, for a price, in a French paper-except, of course, in L'Humanite, which sometimes reads as if it were edited in the Kremlin. Nor can government ministers phone editors, as they did before the war, and tell them what to print and what to kill...