Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours of the morning. At the foot of South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. freight train hisses steam for ten minutes and then continues along the shore of the Lehigh River. One of many steelworkers on the night shift of the Bethlehem Steel Company, a huge plant which stretches out of the city for almost five miles, lifts his goggles and sits on an iron pig to eat a supper of cold pork and white bread. For him, and thousands of others, the presence of gigantic Bethlehem Steel in a relatively small city is virtually unignorable...
...announced last night that an undetermined amount of federal aid will be granted the high school, under a law permitting assistance to schools attended by children whose parents work at federal installations. Some children of employees at the Oak Ridge atomic energy plant attended the Clinton school...
...these two are possible); one course in history, philosophy, or religion; one in economics, sociology, psychology, or political science; one in two of the following: English literature, foreign literatures, art or music; and one in two of the following groups: mathematics, astronomy, chemistry, geography, geology, or physics; and physiology, plant science, or zoology. Exceptions are possible through advanced placement, or by qualifying for a foreign literature course by demonstrating enough proficiency in the language to skip a more basic course...
Kelley asserted that the union shop, "which is as American as apple pie," eliminates friction between plant employees that could cause a drop in production. He added that a union is in a much stronger position to enforce terms of collective bargaining when it has full support of all workers concerned...
...still thinks that babies are bought from pushcart peddlers, it is prudent to post him elsewhere. In a scene of superb comic tenderness, Papa attempts to explain where children really come from, and bears up just fine until his relentlessly inquisitive child asks: "But, Papa, where do you plant the seed...