Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Immune Plant. To snare Hoffa, Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Justice Department deliberately used spy tactics to get evidence, for which, Chief Justice Earl Warren sadly said, "the Government paid an enormous price." Soon after Hoffa went on trial in Nash ville in 1962 for accepting a bribe from trucking operators, the Government curtly told the judge that he was trying to bribe two of his prospective jurors. Though the judge dismissed the two jurors, that trial eventually ended in a hung jury. Hoffa was next tried on the jury-fixing charge in Chattanooga in 1964. And that time...
...possible, too, that Thomson may decide to consolidate his operations and print both London papers on the Sunday Times's modernized presses.* In that case, the Guardian, which prints on the Sunday Time's presses, and the Sunday Observer, which uses the daily Times's plant, might be put in the position of having to buy the daily plant...
...Continent, be capable of producing a quarter of Britain's steel needs. The merger was prompted by the demand for pipe created by newly found North Sea gas. Short of pipe capacity, Stewarts and Lloyds and South Durham plan to use Dorman Long's new plate plant at Lackenby as a source of supply. Since that is just the kind of resource pooling that the nationalization-bent government has been demanding of the steel industry, the merger won a quick official blessing...
Last week Alcoa won final government approval of a proposal to spend $56 million building a new aluminum plant. Also last week United Brazilian Minerals, which is 49% owned by Cleveland's Hanna Mining, was granted the right to mine and export iron ore and eventually to manufacture steel, an ambitious $600 million enterprise. The two new projects were only the latest in a spate of similar announcements. Phil lips Petroleum plans to pump in some $60 million, starting with a new fertilizer plant for which ground has already been broken. Union Carbide will expand its operations...
Volkswagen, already Brazil's leader, plans to up production from 420 to 500 vehicles a day within a year, will spend at least $100 million for plant expansion...