Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Regional Planning are concerned with the professional training of graduate students. Facilities currently are under heavy strain since 220 students are enrolled in GSD while Hunt and Robinson Halls can really accommodate a maximum of only 200. Plans are being made for a campaign to enlarge the physical plant of the school. No increase in the enrollment is foreseen, according to Dean Sert, in order to preserve the close knit character of the small school...
...acres of parched croplands. Another is a plan to exploit 200 million tons of 55.6%-grade iron ore found twelve years ago south of the Negro River. The government has also approved plans by Houston's Butadiene & Chemical Corp. to invest $40 million for three big petrochemical plants for synthetic rubber, carbon black and butadiene gas near Comodoro Rivadavia, plus another $17 million for an aviation-gasoline plant...
Eventually, the Canadians got too greedy. They expanded, hired outside amateurs-a chiropractor's wife and a TV repairman in Portland, a pretty secretary in Detroit, a dress-plant manager near Harrisburg-who would settle for peanuts: $150 to $300 cuts of $3,000 and $4,000 wins. The ringers were the ring's undoing. When in February the suddenly suspicious Portland papers called in the FBI, investigators concentrated on the weak links. After their shamed confessions, the FBI pieced together the whole story...
...small restaurant. When he was seven, they took him back to Greece. In the National Technical University at Athens, Christofilos took electrical engineering. After graduation in 1938, he went to work for an elevator-building company. When the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, they turned the plant into a truck repair shop and gave him an easy supervisory job. Christofilos seized the chance to read all the German books he could get on advanced atomic physics. After the war he returned to the elevator business, but kept on restlessly reading physics...
NUCLEAR BOMBER will be designed by Convair, which won Government nod over Lockheed. The near-sonic plane, to be powered by a G.E. nuclear plant, would be roughly the size...