Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart of the plan are the seven development "poles" scattered throughout provincial Spain. Borrowing a page from Puerto Rico's successful Operation Bootstrap, Planning Minister Laureano López Rodó offers a five-year tax holiday, duty-free equipment imports, easy credit facilities and attractive plant sites to private industries willing to set up shop in these areas which are starving for capital...
...Tankard. Guinness' principal product, however, will always continue to be beers brewed pretty much as they have been for two centuries. In 1759, looking for a place to invest a ?100 inheritance, Arthur Guinness leased a bankrupt brewery beside the Liffey River; the St. James's Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden's father...
...part of a long-range program to decentralize the printing of TIME and, consequently, speed up delivery to subscribers, we were on press with this issue at a sixth plant for the U.S. edition. It is W. R. Bean & Son, Inc., of Atlanta, which has been printing our Latin American edition since 1960, when Castro shut down our operations in Havana...
...Bean plant will be running off about a quarter of a million copies a week for distribution to eight southeastern states: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana. Our other U.S. printing locations are Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Albany, N.Y., and Old Saybrook, Conn. Abroad, TIME is printed in Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Melbourne and Auckland...
Strength & Insulation. One of his remarkable pictures clearly shows that protein molecules eventually used by the developing plant are rearranged during anabiosis into physiologically inactive crystals-a structure that scientists had suspected but never observed. Other photographs reveal the protective shift of tiny sacs of fluid called vacuoles, which are distributed through the cytoplasm of a young, active cell. During anabiosis, they line up in rows against the inner cell wall, probably to strengthen and insulate it against long periods of heat or cold, and to facilitate the rapid absorption of water when it becomes available...