Word: planted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coffee. Brazil has natural riches to match her size. Her great Volta Redonda steel plant-South America's largest-feeds off a quarter of the earth's known iron deposits, heavily concentrated in & around the fabulous "iron mountain" of Itabira. Brazil also has significant deposits of most of the other minerals useful to man. She ranks fourth among the world's independent nations in hydroelectric potential. Geologists estimate that oil-bearing formations lie beneath a quarter of her sparsely settled 3,286,170 square miles of territory...
...change was dictated by a rumor that strikebreakers would be brought into the plant of the Canadian Johns-Manville Co., chief employer in Asbestos. Barricades manned by club-wielding strikers were thrown up on all roads into the town. All cars were stopped and searched. Clergymen, doctors and well-known businessmen were allowed to pass and a few newsmen got through, but they were warned to take no pictures. Policemen in Asbestos huddled inside the Johns-Manville property waiting for reinforcements...
Milton and Mom, who were accompanied on their tours for years by his younger sister, Rosalind, made it a point to be the first arrivals at rehearsals to get priority on the songs Milton wanted to sing. Early in the game, Mom began to serve as an audience "plant." In line of duty, she has cut loose with her piercing, roof-shaking laugh in every major theater in the U.S. Only a frankly hostile audience could resist Mom's lead. Milton's stage response to her laughter has become standard: "Thank you, mother," and that is usually good...
...Siragusa had to knock the roof off his plastics plant to lower the 40-foot press into place on its 6-ft.-thick concrete base. Finally, the hissing, throbbing monster (Dom calls it "Gargantua") was ready for trial. It pressed down on $6.50 worth of preheated blocks of phenol plastic and molded a complete 35-lb. cabinet, the biggest plastic "casting" made...
Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...