Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next Heath tried to capitalize on the sensational news of a kangaroo trial of seven nonstriking workmen by strikers at a British Motors Corp. plant. He hoped to use the incident as an example of how badly the nation needs the trade-union reform plan that he is pushing. Heath even briefly postured as a British De Gaulle, characterizing the French President's NATO-wrecking as "helpful" and darkly warning Britain against too much dependence on the U.S. So far, none of Heath's attacks have scored...
Tourists rarely see either the intellectual ferment or the burgeoning industry of the East-the steam-wreathed polyethylene plant at Rumanian Ploesti; the scorching debate over Camus at Budapest's Hungaria Restaurant; the clanking Skoda automobile factory outside Prague; the student jazz joint in Warsaw where frugging and free verse give the lie to socialist realism. This is also the domain of the Western businessman, of the 500 Western firms which are engaged in cooperative ventures worth $800 million in Eastern Europe, and which will do many times that amount of business in the years ahead...
...Italy's Orlandi is building a $1,000,000 bakery in Rumania; Pepsi will soon be bottling in Rumania; the Japanese sell ships to Rumania in exchange for timber, which the Japanese then cleverly turn into musical instruments. France's Pechiney has a contract for an aluminum plant at Slatina; Sweden's ASEA is building $10 million worth of electric locomotives to replace Rumania's wheezing steam behemoths. Chatillon of Milan has a rayon-cord-tire factory in the works near Brăila, while Italy's Carle & Montanari will add to Rumania...
...change is also under way to tidy up the practice of gardening, make it as simple and antiseptic as picture taking. Begonias now come ready to bloom in individual paperboard containers, geraniums can be bought in plastic bedding boxes that look like oversized ice trays. Both the plant and its cube-shaped root cluster can simply be pulled out of the pots, plopped into the ground. Rose bushes arrive in brand-new aluminum foil containers with plastic bottoms; the backyard gardener simply snaps off the plastic bottom, lowers the container into the ground without ever soiling his hands. Because rose...
Most of the West Coast catch will still end up as fish meal, at least for the time being. A company called Pacific Protein Inc. is spending $1,000,000 to build a processing plant at Aberdeen, Wash., for that purpose. Pacific Protein President John Stevens would like eventually to use hake in making fish-protein concentrate, an almost tasteless powder of reputedly wondrous nutritional value. A half ounce of FPC, as it is called, is said to be capable of providing a child with his daily need for animal protein at a fraction of a cent...