Word: plante
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...across his native Franconian countryside singing Ins Land der Franken fahren from his Mercedes' windows. He outdrew Socialist Boss Erich Ollenhauer three to one in the Saarland's industrial Völklingen. Heckled by Volkswagen workers in Wolfsburg over his plan to sell their state-owned plant, he sent 35,000 letters to their homes explaining that the whole idea was to sell "people's shares" to small investors like themselves. Wolfsburg, like Nürnberg and Vঝklingen, went C.D.U. for the first time ever in the September landslide...
...restrictions are placed on donations to the Fund, but they are not used for additions to the College's physical plant. While the Fund Council is curtailing its operations, unrestricted revenue must be withdrawn from Program funds other than those earmarked for construction. The burden of the withdrawal will then fall entirely on donations allocated for faculty salaries, student aid, and library endowment...
...doubt his teachers. It was made easier in the satellites because the parents could not effectively refute what was taught. Some parents dared not interfere because of the fear that their children might, with innocent words, betray them to the school authorities. Braver parents did what they could to plant seeds of truth in their children. Some declared in desperation, "I would rather have no children than foster a communist...
Ever since April 1954, when 2,800 United Auto Workers walked out of Wisconsin's Kohler Co. over a contract dispute, company and union have been in a bitter stalemate. During the strike, Kohler is operating its plumbing-fixture plant with about 2,000 non-union employees, whom it steadfastly promises to keep on the job even when the fight is settled. Just as firmly, the U.A.W. sets as its price for peace the promise that all the strikers will be rehired, and at one point it tried to organize a nationwide boycott of Kohler products. Last week, handing...
Follow the Leader. In Port Washington, Wis., city employees were administered their Asian-flu vaccinations in order of their importance to the community: garbage detail, rubbish sweepers, waterworks employees, sewage-disposal-plant worker, mayor, aldermen...