Word: waterproofed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southeast China port of Swatow, the city near the planned landing, made hundreds of area photographs and closely monitored local Chinese security forces. The plan, completed last December, called for a sturdy tug to tow a partly submersible barge loaded with 232 one-ton blocks, each packed with 48 waterproof boxes containing 90 Bibles...
...doubt since the last century. As North America's largest land bird, the condor has always made a seductively easy target. Indians prized its tough, 2-ft.-long feathers; 19th century hobbyists collected condor eggs, which could fetch $300. During the 1849 gold rush, its hollow quill feathers, waterproof and ½ in. in diameter, were favored as gold-dust containers. Even after the condor became a federally protected species in 1963, farming and development continued to destroy its habitat. Where condors once flourished by the thousands, all the way from Canada to Baja California, today fewer than 30 remain...