Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invitations, food, extra help and other items would clearly be paid from their own resources rather than public funds. When it developed that Priscilla Kidder of Boston, who designed the bridesmaids' and bridal gowns, has a nonunion workshop, the job of making the dresses was transferred to a plant in Lowell, Mass., so that the garments would carry union labels. When family friends in Milwaukee planned a dinner party, word got around that champagne would be served, although the legal drinking age there is 21. The hosts served apple cider instead...
...unit, "I saw Chairman Mao swimming. He is in excellent health!" With the typical enthusiasm of the enlisted man about such tidings, his buddies chorused, "We feel as happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news. In a Canton hospital, a navy hero awoke from anesthesia after a brain operation to proclaim: "This joyful news is most inspiring. It is a great happiness to us all that Chairman Mao is so healthy...
Tracers lit the night sky over the airport, the power plant and the army camp; the A.N.C. resorted to its time-tested tactic of shedding clothes, shoes and weapons and fleeing to safety. Still, 50 men died in the fighting, and the Kats quickly gained control of downtown Kisangani, where last week they claimed that their rebellion had been triggered by A.N.C. discrimination and the fact that many of them had not been paid in three months...
Shortage in the Market. The idea of tinkering with the tax credit worries many businessmen, if only because plant expansion often requires decisions on spending two or three years ahead of the actual outlays. "Tax and depreciation incentives created the boom in the first place," said Chairman Willard F. Rockwell of Pittsburgh's Rockwell-Standard Corp. "If they cut down the investment credit they'll be in a slump much faster than they expect...
Divine Comedy. Krogager keeps prices churchmouse cheap: a weeklong, all-expense trip to Rhodes costs $103; a 19-day Tjaereborg bus tour of eight cities, including Moscow and Berlin, costs $125. Krogager plows most earnings back into the companies, whose plant and equipment are now worth $45 million. His Sterling Airways, run for him by a onetime SAS pilot, has on order two more Caravelles and a DC-6-B. Krogager is also building an eleven-story hotel on Spain's Costa del Sol and planning another on Rhodes. The company is about to rent a computer for data...