Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heard of it, published up at Fort Hill. He said yes. So then the clerk said Fred here used to run a newspaper, the Midtown Journal. He said, you did? I said yeah. He asked me where I put the paper, I said up in my plant, up in Rutland St., it's vacant now. He said we're looking for a place. I said, well come on up and I'll show it to you. So I brought him up here and showed it to him, this room in here. He said it's not big enough. I said...
...prizes, but lately builders have learned how to stack them in handsome configurations. At Puffton Village in Amherst, Mass., for instance, Magnolia Homes teamed up with a developer to create a striking community of 104 apartments from 12-ft. by 56-ft. sections hauled all the way from its plant at South Hill...
...fleet of trucks rumbled out of National Homes Corp.'s prefabrication plant in Lafayette, Ind., shortly after midnight, laden with six-ton sections of ready-to-live-in housing. Their destination was a Chicago ghetto 125 miles away. Less than 24 hours later, tall cranes had plucked the sections from the trucks and stacked them into eight two-story, four-bedroom homes ready for occupancy...
...need for such temporary work in industry is diminishing: an increasingly sophisticated technology has cut down the need for unskilled labor with the result that at projects like the Togliatti plant, Komsomol participation is little more than symbolic. But millions are still needed in the back-breaking work of the annual harvests. Beyond such extracurricular efforts, Komsomoltsy have a voice in their own student affairs and maintain their own job placement service...
...says Polk President Walter Gardner, a 35-year veteran of the company and the first non-Polk to head it. Information was stored on slips of paper until the company installed its first computer ten years ago. Now, one of five computers in the firm's Cincinnati plant is a third-generation IBM 360-65 that operates seven days a week around the clock...