Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska, the federal men were barraged with complaints about restrictions hampering sea imports to the state. In Washington State, officials heatedly complained to the visitors that announcement of a new federal power plant for Grand Coulee Dam caught the state by surprise-and wholly unprepared to provide the needed roadways...
...colleges and universities-will be hardest hit, though they still remain high on the foundation's list of priorities. One program that may end is the matching of capital grants, under which 80 colleges and universities received $316 million over the past six years for such purposes as plant expansion and salary boosts...
What was significant about that exchange was that Bill Martin, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee in support of restoring the 7% tax credit on new plant and equipment, seemed worried about the possibility that the U.S. economy has perhaps cooled off too much. "There has been a slowing down," he admitted, "although I see no recession in the slowdown...
...This is Mac calling all the team." The voice crackles with authority as loudspeakers carry it to every corner of the sprawling aerospace plant on the rim of St. Louis' Lambert Field. It sparkles with an enthusiasm that rises above the inescapable racket of jet aviation?the rumble of commercial planes lifting off the long runways, the ear-shattering passage of military fighters climbing aloft on steep, improbable curves...
...bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes a parent but frowns on an employee leaving the plant for lunch...