Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much would industry spend in 1967 on plant and equipment? This year, such outlays increased by 17%. Now that Johnson has suspended the 7% investment credit, which acted as a stimulus to expansion, the figure may well be halved-but the Administration will not know until next month...
...considerable ingenuity goes into the recovery and reuse of waste materials. Some industrial waste is saved and reprocessed at the plant itself; the rest comes through the scrap and salvage industry, which buys up wastes from plants, offices and homes. The copper in a skillet, for instance, may have an indefinite series of incarnations over a cycle of many years, moving from smelter to refinery to brass mill to the factory to housewife's kitchen to junk collector to a secondary refinery where it is smelted into ingots and sold back to the factory. Overall, only an estimated...
Such cards emerge from brainstorming sessions that a special staff of American Greetings' artists and editors hold at their offices in a onetime airplane plant in Cleveland. Stone, whose regular staff of 200 creative people is much more dignified, gives his Hi Brows free rein. They include an ex-nightclub comedian, a onetime disk jockey who likes to blow on trumpet mouthpieces while he creates, and an astrologer who owns the largest collection of Batman comic books in Ohio; their office decor ranges from a sculptured bust with a leather flying helmet on it to a tape recorder...
East-West trade already is clipping along at a $10 billion rate this year. Although more of the goods involved, from Renault and Fiat cars to a U.S. petroleum-cracking plant, are Eastbound, the Communists still stand to make money out of the deals. No Western bank is allowed a branch in Moscow, but the Russians already have banks in London, Paris and Beirut that earn attractive commissions by cutting red tape, handling paper work and removing the risk for Western exporters by discounting their bills in advance. Now, with trade on the increase, they have opened a new bank...
...Reason: FDA microbiologists had found that some samples of Starlac contained salmonella bacteria, which can cause severe diarrheal disease. No cases of salmonellosis have yet been attributed to Starlac, but neither the FDA nor Borden was taking chances. The company also recalled powdered Frosted Shakes, packaged in the Starlac plant...