Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet society. Since 1950, more than 1,800,000 Komsomoltsy have given up summer vacations and sometimes whole school years to work on development projects in Siberia and the Soviet Far East. Komsomoltsy helped build the Bratsk hydroelectric station, are now participating in the construction of the Togliatti auto plant, which is scheduled to produce 600,000 Soviet versions of the Italian Fiat a year. Some of the youngsters go out of ideological zeal, some simply for the adventure of getting away from home. But for most, subtle and highly persuasive pressures are at work, primarily choice job assignments after...
...reforms" into law would be similar to putting George Wallace in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. The Labor Board is essential to union growth and to labor's power to bargain. It provides the only impartial supervision for the organizing elections that decide if a plant is to become union. Without a watchdog, unions could hardly win an election, for an employer's mere suggestion that if the union came in he might close down business is often enough to keep workers from voting for the union...
Though Potter and Ebert both said that they hoped eventually to recruit more than fifteen disadvantaged students, Ebert said that the School has "no immediate plans to expand the physical plant...
...Netherlands ranks second, with $1.4 billion, partly because of its shares in the Anglo-Dutch companies, Unilever and Shell. Following a trend toward joint venture, chemical-making DSM and PPG Industries (formerly Pittsburgh Plate Glass) are building a $20 million plant in Augusta, Ga., to make caprolactam, a nylon ingredient...
...secrecy; its ministry of economic affairs regards attempts to measure the country's U.S. interests as "industrial spying." The Swiss stake, nonetheless, is growing. Nestle has increased its holding in Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby (food canning) from 20% to 35%. Alusuisse is building a $63 million aluminum-processing plant at Lake Charles, La., and Swiss watchmakers are buying heavily into Waltham, Elgin and other U.S. companies...