Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JEEPS FOR AUSTRALIA will be made down under for first time by Kaiser Industries' Willys Motors, which will open manufacturing and assembly plant in Brisbane (initial production: 150 a month...
...left for an Assembly meeting one morning, they were greeted by boos and catcalls. But with troops on hand, no violence flared. To keep tempers down, the government canceled all liquor licenses, closed the bars and shops, where Scotch normally sells at $3.50 a fifth. Supervisors kept the power plant going; a few white housewives learned to bake bread at home. Though the strike dragged on, the union had little chance to gain its real goal of political power this time, or in this way. Meanwhile the colony was losing some $110,000 a day in tourist dollars...
...taxis' business. Drivers massed their cars at the entrance halting all air traffic when the airport opened in November. They abided by a cooling-off period of six weeks, then struck again last week. Some 2,000 workers from hotels, construction projects, water works and the power plant went out in sympathy and locked up the island...
...conquest of space," says Rocket Engineer Harold W. Ritchey, "depends on solid propellants." Dr. Ritchey, chief rocket man for Thiokol Chemical Corp., manufacturer of solid propellants, backs up his flat statement in Astronautics. He has no hope that liquid-fuel rocket engines ("a remarkable chemical processing plant") will ever get spaceships into space...
Still Life. In Fall River, Mass., Manuel V. Oliveira Jr., 44, who lost the city's garbage-disposal contract last October, was arrested by federal agents for operating an illegal distillery, admitted he spent $5,500 converting his garbage-cooking plant into a still...