Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstate Newport one day last week, Jean G. Archambault, a 21-year-old farmer, seemed to prove the commissioner's point. Worried about finances and about plans to leave the land to work in a plywood plant, he walked out to the barn, tossed a rope over a rafter, adjusted a noose and hanged himself...
...strategic new foothold. Only nine years after buying his first newspaper, Hamburg-based Publisher Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer prepared to intensify his assault on the Berlin market by moving high-speed presses and an expanded staff into new quarters in the city's bustling Ullstein newspaper plant, home of prewar Germany's largest press empire. Newcomer Springer, who has already swallowed up almost half of the Ullstein papers, was also preparing for the hoped-for day when free newspapers will surge eastward in a reunified Germany...
...pioneered by Maine and watched closely by other states. Bucking tight-money pinch, Maine legislature passed law to have state insure up to 90% of loans made for construction of new factories. Loans will be made to nonprofit corporations set up by Maine communities to hold title to a plant, lease it back to the new industry...
Grace drove other men as hard as he drove himself. He sent out photos of himself to his plant managers, autographed: "Always More Production." He pushed Beth Steel's famous incentive plan by which workmen were carefully graded on their output, and the top producers were promoted to bonus-paying jobs...
...major problem is that the construction of complex nuclear plants is proving far more expensive than originally thought. On a big nuclear power plant that Consolidated Edison is building north of New York, cost estimates have jumped from $55 million to $90 million. At the nation's first major nuclear power plant, which is scheduled to start operating at Shippingport, Pa. before year's end, Westinghouse has spent 80? on research and development for every $1 spent on construction of the reactor portion...