Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Rudolf Viktor Heberlein, 57, automation-minded board chairman of his family-owned Swiss textile plant, chairman of Swissair's board of directors, who arranged for transportation of 1,253 U.N. troops to Egypt during the November 1956 crisis without disrupting regular schedules; of a heart attack; in Wattwil, Switzerland...
...First Look. Hanisch kept his word, though he admitted he had passed by the plant late one night after a bridge party and "damned near knocked off three cars looking the other way." Now it was opening day. With Architect Stone, Owner Hanisch rode up to his brand-new, three-acre, $3,000,000 combined office and plant in Pasadena. He saw a dazzling, 400-ft.-long, low, white-and-gold façade, faced with an airy grille of masonry, half given over to a carport spaced by hanging saucer-gardens. Black-bottomed reflecting pools reached under the cantilevered...
...Change the World." Then Hanisch had a question: "Can this place also make pills?" Striding through the well-lighted, air-conditioned plant, with its white walls and precisely placed blue machines (white and blue are Stuart Co.'s colors), he found a more than satisfactory answer. With an elliptical swimming pool and 30,000 sq. ft. of gold-roofed, pagoda-like recreation shelter in the form of a hyperbolic paraboloid to be finished in two months, Pillmaker Hanisch has a building that combines beauty, efficiency, and the atmosphere of a country club...
...Khrushchev visit, India got one of Russia's rare outright gifts: $1,500,000 worth of agricultural equipment for a state-operated mechanized farm. More important, capital-starved India has also received $270 million in Soviet credits, nearly half of it earmarked for the Russian-designed Bhilai steel plant, which is being built under the supervision of Soviet technicians. Though it is only one of four foreign-financed steel mills currently under construction in India-the others are being built by Britain, West Germany and the U.S.'s Henry Kaiser-the Russian plant is by far the best...
...attached to their offers to Yugoslavia, have pointedly frozen credits already agreed upon when displeased by Tito's diplomatic posture. (One consequence of this is that, despite the fact that the Russians first agreed to supply credits for it in August 1956, construction of a $175 million aluminum plant in Montenegro has now been postponed to 1960 at the earliest.) The Yugoslavs are also distressed by the poor quality of East German equipment purchased with Soviet credits, have left hundreds of East German cars and other machines sitting forlornly idle in a huge vacant lot in the center...