Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France and the evacuation from Changjin Reservoir. Truman, in his decision not to bomb Red China, came the closest to exercising civilian authority in a framework of limited war. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, worried about whether he should allow the Air Force to bomb a power plant in Hanoi that stood a scant li miles from Ho Chi Minh's home. Ultimately, he did. It is such concern with minutiae that best illustrates the key fact about Viet Nam: it is a war in which the political factors exert more control than they...
...that red ink, the company insists that its long-range prospects are looking up. Under the imaginative leadership of Chairman and Chief Executive Roy Chapin Jr. and President Luneburg, A.M.C. has slashed $20 million in sales promotion off its annual budget, concentrated on improving assembly-line quality control, increasing plant efficiency, and attending to essential details such as the availability of replacement parts...
...Pittsburgh's Papercraft Corp., it is Christmas in August. Last week, at the firm's modern one-story plant, some 1,000 employees worked round the clock in three shifts to produce gift-wrapping paper for the 1967 holiday season. Traveling around the premises in an electric golf cart was President Joseph M. Katz, 54. Shouting to make himself heard above the roar of the presses, through which rolled 600 miles of paper daily, Katz exulted: "You can't eliminate Santa Claus...
...course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas. In the process, its waters dissolve untold quantities of plant juices and tree sap. Now scientists have discovered that the Rio Negro's botanically infused waters may be a simple, untapped and essentially unlimited supply of a new and fool proof insecticide...
Williams quickly hypothesized tint the Rio Negro might in effect be an immense tea, pontaining infusions of plant and tree substances similar to the insect hormones. Scooping up the dark river water, Williams and his colleagues, Professors Fotis Kafatos of Harvard and David Prescott of the University of Colorado, freeze-dried and boiled the water to concentrate the chemicals in it, extracted them with solvents, then injected the resulting solution into immature cockroaches. Sure enough, the roaches all died without reaching sexual maturity...