Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Defense Department has upset Navy policy by ordering a year's delay in the construction of a second nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (the first is due for launching in 1961). The Navy will still get funds for beginning design and construction of the second carrier's power plant, but there is no guarantee that it will be able to go on with its carrier-a-year-for-ten-years program. One reason for the switch: the Defense Department is coming to the conclusion that Navy money could be better spent for missile-launching atomic submarines...
...must plant potatoes in square clusters. You must grow cabbage as my grandmother did," he lectured cloth-capped peasants. He admitted that his plans for planting corn ("sausage on the stalk") had not panned out so well everywhere. "If you cannot catch the bird of paradise," he advised, "better take a wet hen." Bidding for the farm vote, he promised the collectivists lower taxes and an end to compulsory delivery to the state from their private plots, then crowed: "Within the next few years, we shall catch up with the U.S. in per-capita production of meat, milk and butter...
...install a ski lift on Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Today Boyne Mountain has a heated swimming pool, private golf course, two snowmaking machines and a second ski lift near by. Hotels and motels are jammed, and the whole area is booming. "It's better than a plant," says local banker Robert A. Campbell, whose deposits rose $1,000,000 to a total of $6,500,000 during the year. "The dollars just spread out to every phase of the local economy...
Diamonds from the Laboratory. While the U.S. consumer spent heavily in 1957, the businessman outdid him, plunked down $37 billion for new plants and equipment (plus $1.5 billion more for new offices), and devised one of the major props under the U.S. economy. Steel expanded 5% to 141 million tons annually; aluminum added 2% to its capacity, synthetic rubber 14%. Oil and chemicals both spent record amounts for expansion. Serving them all. the nation's utilities grew at compound rates, increased their outlays 28% to $6.3 billion, and in the process added 7% to U.S. generating capacity. Among...
...they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first one at a military base next spring. American Gilsonite licked the problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered rocket fuels...