Word: plante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman could look out over the formal rose gardens, edged with boxwood. And as he walked back to Blair House at day's end, he could also see, glowing pink and salmon under the ancient elms, the round beds of impatiens, which people also know as the patience plant...
...Meaning of Security. The whole process of emergency clearances, Lilienthal went on, had been specifically authorized by law to speed AEC's work. A breakdown of plutonium production was threatened in the overworked Hanford, Wash. plant, for example, and it had been necessary to rush in a corps of workers to expand the plant. "To lose 60 or 90 days [through loyalty checks] at that juncture," said Lilienthal, "was a very serious responsibility for the commission...
Heads Against the Wall? Washington believed that the story in U.N. World was based on a plant, probably by the Polish or Czech delegation at U.N. Its purpose: to help persuade U.S. opinion that the Atlantic pact was unnecessary. The Atlantic pact is still a great concern of Russian propagandists; a recent Krokodil cartoon showed Uncle Sam launching human torpedoes-Winston Churchill and John Foster Dulles-from a submarine labeled Atlantic Pact...
That was too much for six Flora businessmen. They organized a syndicate to buy up the mortgage on Crowder's newspaper plant. When Crowder went to the bank with $800 in back payments, he learned that his mortgage had been sold for $8,500 to "my worst enemies." The syndicate, headed by Oilman E. D. Given, promptly slapped a judgment on Crowder's property, and the sheriff tried to seize the press...
...time when the company had just turned in a loss of $937,186. Its stock, which had once sold at 98¼, had sunk to 2¾. At 36, Phillips knew plenty about the shirt business; for 15 years he had clerked in the stockroom of the family plant, worked on credit, advertising and sales. Thanks partly to the wartime boom in textiles, but even more to Phillips' shrewd, hard-selling management, the company's sales began to climb rapidly...