Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reactor which drives the sub may damage the crew's health is negligible, so effective is its lead shielding. But in port (where pre-atomic subs represented no hazard) the danger skyrockets: part of the shielding may be removed for nucleonics technicians to work on the power plant. Another oddity: though detectable radiation gets into the air and might conceivably build up to health-hazard proportions, it does not come from the reactor. The heavy villains are the radium-painted luminous dials and markers used to permit operating in the dark. In a completely closed ventilating system with recycled...
...Adolfo bought the Alfieri Maserati firm, then financially foundering, as an addition to his scrap-iron and farm-implement businesses, later used the plant as the base of a new machine-tool business. Racing cars were only the frosting on the cake to give the tools a famous name. By last year the combination was bringing in $3,000,000 annually. But along with the cash came trouble...
...performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven-eighths of a ton of sugar a year for each of its 230,500 inhabitants (called Bajans). who plant every inch of its white-coral soil...
...Full company-paid medical insurance for workers and their families (v. 50% payment at present); higher pensions, tied, like wages, to cost-of-living escalators; moving allowances and severance pay for workers dislocated by plant shifts...
...quite so worried about Russian competition, have not retrenched as much as Aluminium. Reynolds is operating at 95% of capacity, and expects to add 112,500 tons additional capacity this year. Kaiser, running at 90%, recently brought in half of its new 145,000-ton Ravenswood plant, has deferred inauguration of the other half. Alcoa has postponed ail of its expansion plans, dropped its operating rate to 75%, "barely enough to keep the pipeline filled...