Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield confesses: "Frankly, I prefer private letters." The National Association of Manufacturers finds it far more effective, says a spokesman, "to send the head of one member plant into the office of a Senator than to send him a petition full of names of all the heads of our member plants." Of campus-circulated petitions, Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, a confirmed non-signer, says: "I think they have no effect whatsoever except to let people blow off steam. In the past, the academic community was more responsible and therefore more effective...
...course, come for the ordinary Russian as yet. But the very fact that the Kremlin holds up the goal as an ideal is a remarkable turnabout in Communist ideology. So, too, is the newly christened town of Togliatti, the Russian Detroit on the Volga, where a huge Fiat automobile plant is being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain...
...young companion, whose hack-work with a soup spoon marked him as so: "Does it matter if you plant them up-side down...
...Korea. Washington has ordered aluminum manufacturers to "set aside" 13% of their production for defense use. The largest producer, Alcoa, estimates that defense orders will jump from 10% of the industry's total output last year to 20% this year. At Government request, Alcoa is building an additional plant at Rockdale, Texas, and has its big extrusion presses at Lafayette, Ind., working round the clock on defense items. Civilian customers have to wait as long as one year...
...Robert Galvin last week cited the labor squeeze as a prime reason why the company's earnings are expected to drop in this year's second half. To recruit, some companies resort to blind mailings; Automatic Electric Co. recently sent letters to people living near its Chicago plant, asking, "Are you happy with your job?" By contrast, the Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. has more engineering job applicants than it needs-because public-utility power engineers are draft-exempt...