Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Increased tax write-offs will benefit business, spurring investment and plant construction...
...well as the boom. But even in the sparsely populated (116,530) Bahamas, the dreams that drove colonials to greater measures of self-government elsewhere in the old British Empire are stirring. Last year, at the beginning of the winter season, Nassau's taxi drivers, bus boys, power-plant workers and construction workers walked out on strike (TIME, Jan. 27, 1958). Members of the Progressive Liberal Party, they struck mostly for fairer polling laws, and they won a few concessions; e.g., men of property, who formerly could vote in every constituency where they owned or leased $14 worth...
...time and again with lightning mobility. As his legend grew, so did his delight in his own prowess. He affected strange headgear, often of black astrakhan, and gripped his men in a discipline of iron. Merciless with Moslems who wavered from the rebel cause, he operated a forest execution plant, where disloyal F.L.N. troops dug their own graves before their throats were slashed. Yet sometimes, with shrewd compassion, Amirouche released kidnaped French settlers after a lecture on nationalism...
After more than 700 experiments conducted by about 150 people on 27,000-odd seeds and seedlings, concludes Experimenter Loehr, "our research has shown . . . that prayer can make a difference in the speed of seed germination and in the rate and vigor of plant growth. This in turn demonstrates two things: 1) that prayer is fact, and 2) that scientific laboratory research can be done in basic religious fields...
...gives U.S. industry plenty of money in the bank to keep the recovery rolling. Many a corporation will be able to dust off the expansion plans shelved during the recession, and once the spending starts, the floodgates are liable to open for another big round of new plant and equipment investment...