Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Brademas, 31, a political-science teacher at St. Mary's College and a special protege of Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler, is trying for the third time to win the seat now held by Freshman Republican F. Jay Nimtz, 42. With South Bend and its Studebaker-Packard plant a chronic unemployment troublespot, Brademas was touted a winner in 1954 and 1956-and lost both years. This time, with Brademas harping on the still-evident recession and labor going all out against Indiana's right-to-work law, Brademas is given his best chance ever...
...factory at Andover in Hampshire, routinely sent a blueprint of the factory to the County Planning Committee. Complying with committee orders that all factories must have flower beds. Neate's architect indicated a space for "shrubs." Back to Neate came the plan with a question: What kind of plants did Neate intend planting? Back to the committee went Neate's reply: he was planning to plant Urtica dioica, Calystegia sepium, Rnmex obtusijolius and Taraxacum offi-cinale-but was willing to amend the list in any way the Planning Committee desired. Mollified, the county council stamped his application "approved...
Many a state in the Union wanted to land the big new plant. It would cost $25 million to $35 million, employ 1,500, be the first in the U.S. to produce a Dacron-like fiber called Teron. This week the site was announced by its joint builders-Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries and the Celanese Corp. of America. Their choice was Shelby, N.C. One major reason for choosing North Carolina, said Celanese, was the "wholehearted cooperation" of Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges...
...year tax windfall, Hodges got his bill passed in 1957. While it trimmed state revenues by $2,000,000 the first year, it also brought in new companies. The day the tax bill passed, Allied-Kennecott Titanium Corp. announced a new $40 million, soo-man plant for Wilmington. Fortnight later R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) announced a $35 million, 1,800-man plant at Winston-Salem...
...fruit growing out of man like the fruit out of a plant like the child out of the mother . . . reason has cut man off from nature...