Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raids, said Rear Admiral David C. Richardson, whose Task Force 77 carriers launched the jets, "will show some people that their sanctuaries are not what they think they are." A few off-limits areas remain nonetheless-Haiphong's port facilities and its huge cement plant, Hanoi's industries, the MIG airfields and the dikes that channel water to the Red River rice bowl...
...trailer park and slammed into a roller-skating rink filled with youngsters. It left at least 30 dead, several of them teen-agers with roller skates still strapped to their feet. At Belvidere, the tornado sliced through five subdivisions and a supermarket, severely damaged a hospital, nicked an auto plant, and then headed toward the local high school, where students were just finishing the day. "A girl fell and somebody said, 'Watch her get blown away,' " recalled Gordon Shook, 18. "Then everybody got blown away." All told, 20 persons were killed in Belvidere, including several students who were...
...company by forcing five directors off the board, tossing out the chairman-president and hiring Morris away from Monsanto Chemical Co. to take charge. Amid that upheaval, Wheeling was unable to attract new seasoned steel executives. Though the company had borrowed $145 million from banks and insurance companies for plant modernization, it needed still more renovation to run efficiently. Over the past two years, Wheeling piled up losses of $12.4 million...
...filtering across the landscape were mixed for the first time with ammonia clouds, and Korean farmers wearing traditional costumes stood side by side with businessmen and government officials in trim, Western-style business suits. All had gathered for the dedication of the Korea Fertilizer Co.'s new urea plant, which, with an annual capacity of 330,000 tons of fertilizer, will be one of the world's largest. Presiding over the ceremonies, suitably enough, was Byung Chull Lee, 57, the plant's owner, who is the richest and by far the most controversial businessman in South Korea...
...help modernize South Korea. Lee was forced to pay $4,400,000 in back income taxes and tax-evasion penalties, and his shares in three banks were confiscated by the Park administration. Now back in grace, Lee got $6,000,000 in government-backed loans to finance the fertilizer plant. The remainder of the money included a $43.9 million loan from Japan's Mitsui & Co. and a $1,000,000 investment by International Ore and Fertilizer Corp. of New York, which will market excess output abroad...