Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gerbils, or sand rats, may make desirable pets, but they are voracious seed and plant eaters. Once they become abundant, they are hard to eradicate, and the damage they do to agriculture is enormous: in countries where they have established colonies, they do heavy damage to wheat, oat and other grain crops. The introduction of gerbils is banned by both the California Department of Agriculture and the Department of Fish and Game, which enforce a joint regulation...
Bureau of Plant Quarantine...
...bridge cables from the weather. U.S. Steel has just introduced a spiral nail which not only fastens lumber more securely but provides up to 29% more nails per pound than the smooth-shank variety. And Crucible Steel last week announced that it will build the world's first plant, at Midland, Pa., to make stainless steel in a continuous liquid process from chrome ore in a blast furnace to a slab-casting machine...
...Agnelli took over the company's chairmanship on the eve of a major new venture. Russia is expected to sign in a few days a "precontract" for the construction of a $600 million auto plant in Russia. Half of the plant will be purchased from Fiat. If the contract goes through, the plant will be opened in 1970 and will eventually turn out 500,000 modified Fiat 124s annually...
...foulest social category in the world today." "The white man, at this point in history, is the major obstruction on the path of man's progress." His solutions are disarmingly simplistic: "When those four children were killed in the Birmingham bombing [of Sept. 15, 1963], the U.S. Steel plant in that city should have been shut down by Negroes. A general strike should have been called. That city should have died, should have been killed by Negroes...