Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charles Kuralt reports on "The State of the Unions," reviewing the history of American unionism and discussing present-day problems-from the fight to organize a grape workers' union in California to the U.A.W.'s complex operations at Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn, Mich., plant...
...area's power companies have belatedly mounted a massive effort to overhaul, augment and modernize equipment and procedures. At the On tario Hydro-Electric Power Commission's Sir Adam Beck Plant No. 2, where the region-wide short circuit originated in an overloaded relay fuse, more relays have been added to in crease the system's safety margin. To prevent the area's vast, interlocking power grid from being pulled down again, newly designed switches have been installed in northwestern New York State so that the southern part of the system can automatically cut itself...
Much still remains to be done. The New York City subway system, in which 800,000 passengers were stranded last fall, has yet to set up its own emergency power system or even a lighting plant. On the basis of the lessons learned from the blackout, both the Federal Power Commission and the Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation strongly endorsed a bill in Congress this year that would have given the FPC greater control over power-grid planning. The measure died, largely be cause the utilities lobby opposed it. And though - until 1965 - utility companies had for years...
...discussing plans to build India's fifth state-owned steel mill, and one of the likely sites was near the coastal city of Vizagapatnam in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. Several weeks ago, in an effort to force the government's hand to start building the plant soon, a regional patriot named Amruta Rao went on a hunger strike. Little by little, noisy support for his demand spread through out the state. Last week mobs went on a rampage in dozens of towns, burning post offices and railway stations, tearing down telegraph lines and looting private shops...
...trends would be." Now central planners will only advise the banks about the climate of investment to guide them in their credit policies. Instead of handing out fat subsidies as in the past, the Czech central bank will charge 6% interest on capital loans-a price that should "make plant managers all the more concerned to develop in the right direction. Already the Czechs have established Western-style business-administration schools to teach the new economic skills to managers who in the past were totally unaware of even the world market prices of goods they were producing. "If they...