Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rachal also put Mooney's internal operations on a straight course. To keep pace with growing output-from 348 planes in 1962 to 790 last year-he expanded Mooney's Kerrville plant. To hold down payroll expenses, he enlisted only two other executives-Chief Engineer Ralph Harmon and brother-in-law Hoffman, who serves as a vice president in charge of sales. His 1,000 plant workers get substantial incentive bonuses; Mooney is delighted that few of them have seen fit to join a union ("They're paid more for their services than...
...door. Loudspeakers have been installed that emit such a high-pitched whine that it will pain the eardrums of would-be invaders. From the East, over the Wall that runs alongside the building? Not at all. From the West. Militant West Berlin students have threatened to break into the plant and smash the printing presses-not to mention the faces of any Springer personnel who get in their way. To which Springer's four Berlin newspapers have replied with a steady stream of attacks on the students for "terrorism" and "treason...
...know that Ford is feeling the full gamut of green-eyed emotions, even without hearing him rant about "Gelosia"; and if you are a little pedantic, when you hear the French horns bay, you will think of the cuckold's horns which the anti-Falstaffians are about to plant on Falstaff's head...
...large proportion of the budget is spent on maintenance of the physical plant. Wages and salary scales, which, according to Britten, had been "miserable," have also gone up in the years since Mary I. Bunting was appointed president...
...sell them what they want. Common Market tariff reductions have brought increasing competition from abroad, and now Fiat, for the first time, is about to be challenged by an Italian firm. State-owned Alfa Romeo, which has decided to produce low-priced, medium-sized cars, is building a plant called Alfa Sud near Naples; it expects to turn out 300,000 cars annually...