Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Linking Arms. Within hours, Negroes were marching the hilly streets to protest the killing. State N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers led some 2,000 to watch the changing of shifts at the Armstrong plant, which, he says, is infested with Ku Klux Klansmen. Evers, whose brother Medgar, another civil rights worker, was shot to death in front of his Jackson, Miss., house in 1963, warned whites that the patience of Natchez Negroes was just about exhausted. "Once we learn to hate, they're through," he said. "We can kill more people in one day than they've done...
Last week, in the comfortable Sao Paulo suburb of Brooklin, Brazilian plainclothes police, acting on information provided by Wiesenthal, picked up Stangl. He had just returned home from his mechanic's job at a Volkswagen plant, was relieved to discover that the cops were not Israeli agents, like the ones who had nabbed Adolf Eichmann. Said Stangl: "I knew I would be captured." Sighed his wife: "Franz was always an excellent head of the family, although a little too austere...
...Czech town of Mlada Boleslav last week came a set of production statistics meant to impress the West as well as local consumers. Daily output of autos from the town's Skoda plant had reached 340; by the end of this year it would rise to 400, for a total 1967 total of over 100,000 cars...
Since Christmas, Hotpoint has laid off 500 refrigerator-production workers in Chicago. General Electric shut down its television-manufacturing lines at Syracuse for this week, idling 4,400. At Westinghouse's Metuchen, N.J., color TV plant, 600 employees have been laid off since December; the company's Columbus, Ohio, appliance plant has cut back from three shifts to one. The Federal Reserve Board reported last week that the nationwide sag in retail sales persisted in January, while its index of overall industrial production fell by a full point to 157.9% of its 1957-59 average. Factory orders...
Will S.D.S. suffer the problems of Control Data, whose 1965-66 earnings stumbled when it ran short of cash amid a similar expansion? Palevsky is unconcerned, even though S.D.S. last year boosted its debt from less than $2,000,000 to more than $16 million, built a fifth new plant and increased employment to 2,900. Reflecting their own confident computations, Wall Street investors have pushed S.D.S. stock up 42 points to $84.50 since October, doubling the value of Pioneer Palevsky's 15% shareholding to $27 million-a pretty fair dividend on his original 1961 investment...