Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District of Columbia struck a major blow in behalf of private power companies. The three-judge court upheld a 1964 Federal Power Commission decision licensing Pacific Northwest Power Co., a consortium of four private power firms, to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam and a generating plant at Mountain Sheep, in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. The court unanimously rejected the challenge of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which wanted to erect a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep...
They were members of a Chinese Communist delegation come to negotiate the purchase of a steel plant from Demag, A.G., West Germany's biggest producer of steelmaking equipment...
Western Europe has increased its trade with Red China from a total of $321.6 million in 1962 to an estimated $622.8 million in 1965. Britain is building or has contracted to build four major plants in China to produce fertilizers, plastics and synthetic fibers. Two 15,000-ton cargo liners are being built for the Chinese in a Scottish shipyard. The French are building a chemical plant in China, have launched two freighters to be delivered to the Chinese, may also build a passenger ship and a truck-assembly plant. The Italians are selling steel and machinery, fertilizer components...
...Western Europe have agreed not to sell the Chinese any "strategic" goods, but opinions vary considerably about just what trade there should be. It would appear obvious that steel is highly strategic. The Germans argue that they are not really providing the Chinese with steel but merely with a plant to process steel that China would produce anyway...
...savings plan that is above and beyond normal retirement benefits. In Cincinnati, General Electric is offering present workers bonuses of up to $200 for every new employee they successfully recruit. Monsanto has started running help-wanted ads on TV in Dayton. Ford's Lincoln-Mercury assembly plant in St. Louis is using spot radio commercials, has set up portable employment offices at several shopping centers...