Word: plant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power role to research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right in the jealously guarded public-power domain of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He outraged stop-the-tests advocates by urging continued nuclear tests, with emphasis on developing "clean" weapons...
...missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College. Last June he passed the personal test of the Navy's nuclear submarine boss. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, then hit the missile-and nuclear-training circuit from California's Lockheed plant, where the Polaris is produced, to Groton's boat yard. Says Osborn: "Driving the wedge of learning into your head is work, hard work. There's no easy...
...Criminal Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty...
...pumped into Spain during the past eight years might have gone far toward putting the country on its feet. But bureaucrats went on an ill-conceived spending spree, some of whose principal results are a steel mill whose products cost half again as much as German imports, an auto plant in Barcelona that builds ersatz Fiats for more than twice the cost of the real thing, thousands of luxury apartments still unrented, a $300 million annual trade deficit, an inflation that nearly doubled the amount of currency in circulation in five years (from 37 billion to 70 billion pesetas...
...worth only a quarter of the land's actual value; Cuban landowners must give up all holdings greater than 3,316 acres; 300,000 landless peasants will get 66 acres each (which multiplies out to more than Cuba's total arable land); the peasants must plant what the government tells them, meet government production goals, and they may not sell the land. "We haven't taken over this government to play games," said Castro testily. "We've come to fix this country...