Word: plant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dies, the pigment begins slowly to change back to its original state, a process that takes roughly twelve hours. Thus, when the red rays in the morning sun strike a leaf, the light-sensitive pigment changes into its new state and stays that way until sundown. This tells the plant, in the chemical language to which it responds, how long the day is and therefore what the season...
...consume 15% to 20% of the nation's steel, are worst off, face heavy layoffs in the next few weeks. General Motors has already laid off 60,000 of its 330,000 production workers, will lay off another 60,000 this week. Chevrolet's Framingham, Mass, plant is closed; all but three of Chevy's other twelve assembly plants go down this week. Some of Chrysler's plants are on a four-day basis, and the companies may have to close some parts and components plants altogether this month because of the two-week...
Economists were cheered by the signs of the U.S. businessman's confidence in the future. The latest survey by the Commerce Department and the Securities & Exchange Commission, taken after the strike, showed a significant boost in industry's plans for new plant and equipment expenditures. With more money going for industrial plants and public works, capital investment should rise to an annual rate of $35.3 billion in the final quarter of 1959. $1 billion more than the third-quarter rate and $5 billion more than a year...
DESALTING OF SEA WATER, which many governments are studying in hopes of finding an economic conversion process, is well along in the U.S. as part of a $10 million program. Carrier Corp. is testing a promising new method at a $150,000 pilot plant that will desalt water by freezing it, trapping salt crystals between fresh-water ice crystals...
Pick Your Acreage. The trouble for both farmers and taxpayers lies in the new corn-support laws passed by Congress last year. Under the old system, farmers who voluntarily restricted their acreage were protected by a support price of $1.36 per bu., while those who planted all they wanted to plant got only $1.06. The new law, supported by both Republicans and Democrats, aimed at compromise with a straight $1.12 per bu., with no attempt to control acreage. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson rashly guessed that there would be little increase in corn production. Even when farmers disclosed their...