Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign capital to build a $3,700,000 brick and ceramic factory, which after two years should yield a tax-free dividend of 10%. Puerto Rico has a private investor who wants capital for a $2,000,000 tire plant. Thailand needs a cannery and food-freezing plant...
...enter college will be up 75% to 4,000,000. "The fraction of these youngsters who wish to enter college is also rising, so that enrollments in the nation as a whole will surely be doubled . . . We must not only double the capacity in 15 years of a plant that we have taken 300 years to build, but we must pay for it in 1957 dollars, not 1857 dollars. It will take $1 billion a year for the next 15 years just to build the necessary buildings . . . And the annual operating costs will also rise from $3 billion a year...
Late in the afternoon, scientists at Britain's Windscale plant, the main British source of plutonium, saw danger signals on a temperature control instrument. A hurried second glance told them what had happened. One of the two nuclear reactors had been closed down all day; deep in the massive structure of graphite blocks, one or more canisters of uranium had grown red hot and burst open. Apparently the uranium, heated by its fierce radioactivity, was burning in an oldfashioned, chemical way by combining with oxygen in the air that is blown past to cool...
...city of Manchester (pop. some 700,000) worried about its water, which comes from the edge of Geiger Gulch. Beef cattle sent to market from the region were marked with yellow paint so their thyroids would be destroyed right after slaughter. No one has been damaged yet (except the plant worker who was shaved), but all Britain has had a disquieting look at a kind of accident that may become common in the atomic future...
...rest of fiscal 1958. If the Air Force sticks to its new schedule, and the company cannot expand its $100 million bank credit, Boeing will be forced into a major production slowdown, says senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall. Boeing is already closing its 1500-worker plant at Everett, Wash.; it has chopped employee overtime, temporarily abandoned a new preflight hangar at Moses Lake, Wash., reduced its shop supply inventory, and cancelled its Christmas party this year...