Word: planted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time, the war was on. He went to Honolulu, talked himself into a job with the Army Engineers, and in three months was bossing 300 electricians. Then he returned to the mainland and, despite his prison record, got a job at the Hanford atomic-energy plant. In 1944 he went back to California...
...most prosperous areas, carefully developed by the Japanese in half a century of colonial rule. Its paddy fields can grow three rice crops a year. It has large sugar and tea plantations, banana groves,, camphor forests. Its Jap-built industry includes sugar mills, waterworks, hydroelectric stations, an aluminum plant...
...machine-shop apprentice, and joined Markem when it was founded in 1911. He soon became its top salesman, and in 1929, its president. Proud that his non-union company has never laid off a single man, he speaks fondly of his employees as "the Markem gang," refers to the plant's janitor as "the man in charge of cleanliness facilities...
Near the little (pop. 1,500) mountain town of Rifle, Colo, last week, a five-year-old federal experiment reached an exciting climax. The Bureau of Mines announced that in its test plant it had produced oil from oil shale at a cost of $2 to $2.50 a barrel, comparable to the cost of petroleum pumped from the ground in east Texas. "We're over the hill now," crowed Plant Superintendent Boyd Guthrie. "We have the processes and the know-how . . . We're positive we can produce equal or better products than you can get from petroleum...
Despite these problems, some big users of crude are about ready to go to work on shale oil on a commercial basis. Union Oil Co. of California has 14,000 acres of oil-shale lands, hopes to build a plant which will produce 200,000 barrels...