Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." Since Italy has minor trade dealings with Hanoi, the Administration-backed...
...growth-minded directors to become chief executive, along with the chairman's post he already held. Zender has stirred Peter Paul's cor porate structure as thoroughly as the chocolate in its giant kettles. He took flying tours from the home office in Naugatuck, Conn., to plants in Salinas, Calif., Frankfort, Ind., and Dallas. In Dallas he discovered "an unhappy plant" because workers did not like the cafeteria menu and the manager refused to change it; Zender changed both the menu and the manager, brags that "now it is a happy plant." He and President Lloyd W. Elston...
Arsenic, strychnine, phosphorus and thallium salts are effective rat poisons, but far too dangerous where there are children or pets. Probably the oldest of rat poisons is about the most effective and also the safest: red squill, from the ground root of a European plant. Mixed with freshly ground meat or fish baits, it is harmless to children, cats, dogs and even squirrels...
...said that it would double its refining capacity from 8,000,000 tons to 16 million tons, and British Petroleum opened a $69 million refinery and designated Europoort its major stock and storage point in Europe. Finally, last week Gulf announced that it would build a $70 million chemical plant to manufacture polyethylene products...
Hugh M. Raup, expert in forestry and plant geography and Director of the Harvard Forest, retires from Harvard of Forestry, Emeritus...