Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bombers dumped more tons of bombs on Communist installations. In a series of pre-truce raids near the Haiphong industrial area, eight U.S. planes were shot down by Red anti-aircraft fire and SAM missiles. American pilots knocked out key bridges and destroyed the important Uong Bi power plant, which had first been raided the previous week. All action stopped when the truce began...
...cost of living, but businessmen give Campos a rousing cheer, and foreign investors are registering their votes with money. Alcoa is planning a $50 million aluminum project, Volkswagen is spending $100 million to double its 60,000-car annual production, and Ford is building a $30 million plant that will turn out all-Brazilian Galaxies...
...cereals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers the process safe enough to have cleared irradiated bacon, wheat and potatoes for public consumption, and the U.S. Army has already served some irradiated food in its mess halls. In Canada, the world's first private, commercial food-irradiation plant is now in operation...
...which will have 49% control) to the iron-and manganese-ore properties of Brazilian Industrialist Augusto Antunes (51% control). Potentially the world's largest iron-ore company, M.B.R. plans to build a $60 million deep-water pier, an ore yard, a railroad link (and perhaps a pelletizing plant) on Sepetiba Bay, 60 miles south of the traffic-clogged port of Rio de Janeiro; it expects to step up exports from 2,000,000 to 10 million tons a year by 1970. The deal, said Antunes last week, "is a Brazilian solution to a national problem...
...offices in all 50 states, France and Canada. It has 14,000 employees, more than 100,000 stockholders and 7,000,000 customers. It writes nearly every kind of insurance through 15 subsidiaries, including Occidental Life Insurance Co., the ninth largest insurers in North America, leases autos and plant equipment, offers consumer-finance and mortgage banking, develops real estate. It is scouting for a mutual fund and a savings and loan association with an eye to further improving its profits-which reached $39 million last year (48% from Occidental) and are expected to rise another 15% this year...