Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rosselini, Richlanders recognized that there was many a problem ahead. G.E. paid its city employees wages 30% to 40% higher than scales in neighboring communities; Richland must meet the rate or possibly lose them. Although the city is bond-free and takes title to debt-free city hall, sewage plant and waterworks, its tax yield at the start will be too small to meet expenses. The Hanford atomic plant is beyond city limits and untaxable; property, liquor and gasoline taxes will be $250,000 less than the $2,500,000 annual budget unless services are cut back or taxable...
...Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will help them win back respect from the island people who ostracized them...
Betancourt moved to Costa Rica, joined a Communist-front group, met a pretty young schoolteacher named Carmen Valverde. The romance with Carmen flourished, the one with the Reds did not. Before he left Costa Rica for home in 1936 he married Carmen, but dropped out of the front to plant himself in the anti-Communist left. Back in Venezuela he led a revolutionary underground political party until 1939, when he was thrown out of Venezuela again, this time to Chile...
...Industrial spending on new plants and equipment began to turn up, said the Commerce Department, but new plant expenditures for the third and fourth quarters will be a little less than expected, will pick up only about 2% in the first quarter...
...suit, filed in the State Supreme Court on December 4, charges that the Corporation went beyond its powers as sole trustee of the Arboretum when in 1953 it moved most of that institution's library and dried plant specimens from Jamaica Plain to a new, University-owned building in Cambridge...