Word: plante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...60th vote if the 59th could be secured. Byrd had acquired a pledge of that vote from Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, who would switch from his pro-filibuster stand if, among other things, the bill were amended to outlaw labor's use of "stranger" pickets, workers from one plant who join picket lines at another. Byrd planned to send the bill back to the Human Resources Committee to add the Long provision...
...been falling fast. Carter announced that Ellington Air Force Base, which was scheduled to be closed, will be taken over instead by NASA -thereby saving about 1,000 jobs in the Houston area. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency will grant $6.4 million to expand a sewage treatment plant in Fort Worth...
Schlafly developed her organizational talents early. Raised in St. Louis, the daughter of a failed inventor, she put herself through Washington University ('44) by working 48 hours a week testing machine guns at a local arms plant. After earning an M.A. in political science from Radcliffe in 1945, she returned to St. Louis to edit a conservative newsletter...
...sendorfer, which employs 135 craftsmen at its factory in Wiener Neustadt and 100 more in the finishing plant in Vienna, is Cartier of keyboard makers. With European Steinways made in Hamburg, and Bechstein, another grand old veteran, based in Berlin, the Bösendorfer is part of a tiny musical elite: what aficionados consider the triumvirate of pianistic excellence. But in price and - some think - even tone, Bösendorfer has the edge. Its 9-ft. 6-in. grand costs $38,000 (Steinway's largest U.S. model, 8 ft. 11% in., costs $17,220), and its smallest piano...
...only way you can make "homemade" ice cream in Massachusetts--otherwise you need a homogenizing plant." Al McCallum, assistant proprietor of the "homemade" ice cream concession at Elsie's, said yesterday...