Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signs of the slowdown are increasingly apparent, from Detroit's production cutback and the slowing of business expenditures for plant and equipment to last week's report from Washington that wholesale prices and retail sales both fell in November for the second consecutive month. In view of these events, the President's problem is whether to try for a tax rise that would certainly help out his budget but that might nudge a hesitant economy toward recession...
...should let your readers know that there were teams involving about 40 people who worked very hard for a week, which finally accomplished the task. As for the freezing of wet manuscripts: a nice theory never put into practice here, as no refrigerator cars or freezing plant were available...
...could still break the postwar 1959 record of $12 billion. That would seem to point to a hefty tax hike-but another estimate crossed the President's desk last week that pointed in the opposite direction. According to the Commerce Department, industry's pell-mell increase in plant expansion, which did much to overheat the economy, is slowing down. This year, such outlays increased a lusty 17%-but by mid-1967, Commerce expects the rate to be halved, significantly cooling off the economy...
This week Kosygin heads south in the company of Premier Georges Pompidou for a tour of the show places of modern French industry, including the Concorde supersonic-transport plant in Toulouse and the nuclear-research center at Grenoble. By coincidence, his trip will take him through precisely those areas of France where De Gaulle is weakest and the left strongest. If Kosygin keeps on singing his praises, that, at least, will please De Gaulle...
...long the wheel turns but the plant no longer sings like a bird. One day the pot that holds the plant falls off a shelf and kills the potter. Free at last? Hardly. His funeral is arranged by the helping Hand...