Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many travels as a pressagent, he has been known to ford a river or brave localities where the mercury knows no bounds in order to plant a sponsor's name...
...would like him to see Levittown [Pa.], the town surrounding the Fairless plant, and see this town universally and exclusively inhabited by its workmen, and to see what those homes...
...Williamsburg section, an American Cyanamid Co. tank truck backed up to the Radio Receptor Co.'s plant (which makes electronic equipment) to deliver 500 gallons of nitric acid. Driver Benjamin Sidla hooked up his hose to a pipe indicated by employees, started pumping. After a few minutes, a man rushed up from the basement, yelled to Sidla: "You'd better stop. The fumes are terrible down there." Somehow the nitric acid had been diverted into a 3,000-gallon tank containing hydrochloric. Result: royal water, which was already beginning to dissolve the tank's rubber lining, eating...
Last week, adding its 100th U.S. dealer, Toyota announced that U.S. sales will hit 350 this month. Toyota will start bringing in station wagons this month (price: $2,500), is building an $18 million plant near Nagoya to meet the demand...
...became president of Lear, Inc. (TIME, May 4), replacing James Anast, 40, former aide to Federal Aviation Boss Pete Quesada. Anast was made president last April, soon showed he planned to be the boss. He politely notified Founder William Lear, 57, who controls the company, not to visit the plant without forewarning Anast (replied Lear: "I'm going to make believe, young man, that I did not hear that"). Showing who is boss, Bill Lear, without warning, turned to Director Handschumacher at the quarterly board meeting, asked if he would take over. Says Lear of Handschumacher, a former Lear...