Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thin, biting air of Catavi, 13,000 feet above sea level, the great refining plant last week lay still and smokeless. Past the paymaster's windows shuffled the Indians who dig and smelt a third of Bolivia's tin from the biggest of the Patiño mines. All 7,000 of them were being fired...
...time was running out. The Germans' only heavy water plant, in Norway, was destroyed by Commandos and bombing when only two tons of the vital water had been produced. Air raids slowed Germany's industry, disrupted her communications. The pile-builders never got all the uranium they needed. They were forced to work in cellars and air-raid shelters. In 1945, they took refuge in a dugout hewn in the rock near the village of Haigerloch, about 32 miles from Stuttgart...
...their copies of TIME, LIFE and the Saturday Evening Post. Newsstand shipments of TIME were getting "lost" in the Argentine customs. Last week the 52-year-old Socialist bi-weekly Vanguardia, outspokenly anti-Perón, was hit hard; the Buenos Aires municipal government shut down its printing plant. The deadpan reason: its newsprint rolls, unloaded on the sidewalk, obstructed traffic...
Today Dr. Salsbury's 150-bed mission hospital is the reservation's showpiece. Salsbury has four assistants (three of them Chinese) and has trained scores of Indian nurses. He also runs a high school, a home-economics school, an ice plant, a power plant, a coal mine (the mission digs all its own fuel...
...like its predecessors, by a thick shield to protect the neighborhood from destructive radiation. This limits its use. But the comparatively small size is an obvious advantage. The new pile, further developed and allowed to run faster and hotter, may be the furnace of tomorrow's atomic power plant...