Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrious land. The General Motors plant at Port Elizabeth last month turned out its 750,000th car. Diamonds pour out of the big holes of De Beers near Kimberley. The busy gold mines of the Witwatersrand (Ridge of White Waters) and the Orange Free State turn out 73% of the world's supply. Not far away, in the middle of the great Vaal River coal fields, the government-owned SASOL plant turns coal into oil, the only major product in which South Africa is not self-sufficient; 18 companies are now exploring for oil in Zululand and the Karroo...
...poet and of a workman, and he was proud that he had mastered his craft. A dropout from Ohio University after his freshman year, Smith studied art under John Sloan in New York, but he had also been a riveter in Studebaker's South Bend plant, assembled locomotives and M7 tanks during World...
...last week, each of Tokyo's department stores was drawing an average of 40,000 people a day. Therefore, in anticipation of a bright and beautiful tomorrow, most Japanese department stores are plowing back their profits into plant expansion. It remains to be seen whether the Japanese economy as a whole will follow its longtime department-store thermometer...
Modified Mia. The windup last week took place in Chicago's all-but-unplayable Soldier Field. The stage was plant ed on the 10-yd. line. The crowd of 14,220 people curled back and up into the end-zone stands like one big paying claque. Yet there was not a heckle of complaint about the low-fi sound, and plenty of uproarious laughter at even her simplest lines. A whistle whined from the neighboring railway yard. "My God!" she cried. "It's got poifect pitch...
...also by five counties and 64 governmental agencies. Last week, as if all of Solomon's wives had for once displayed the wisdom of Solomon, these groups agreed on a simple solution that by 1970 will forever end the threat of pollution at Lake Tahoe. A mammoth disposal plant (6,000,000 gallons' capacity) will filter the waste to the acceptable standard for drinking water, and three export pipelines will be constructed to carry the "effluents," as the processed waste is called, over the mountains and out of the Tahoe Basin completely. Pollution control will cost $40 million...