Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent increase in plant and equipment investment has been forecast for this year and such predictions are traditionally...
...months, Astronauts Elliot M. See Jr. and Charles Bassett had been regular commuters between Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center and McDonnell Aircraft's St. Louis plant, where the Gemini 9 capsule they were to pilot next May was abuilding. To both, the flight had become almost as routine as driving to work. To both, the twin-engine T-38 jet trainer they boarded last week for the 90-minute hop to St. Louis must have seemed about as tame as a tricycle...
...industry, has more than tripled industrial exports to $25 million in the past five years. All along, a valuable asset lay hidden: bauxite, the basic raw material from which aluminum is made. Now a French-Greek-American combine called Aluminum of Greece has built the country's largest plant, a $135 million factory on the Bay of Antikyra in the shadow of Mount Parnassus. The plant not only brings Greece a whole new industry, aluminum, but by itself will double again the country's industrial exports by August...
...already destroyed." Tricky renegotiations over the price of electricity with three successive governments are only now nearing conclusion, with the company likely to wind up paying as much as $1,500,000 a year more for its power than it had originally bargained for. Even so, though the plant was ready to start production six months ago, the electricity wasn't available, at any price, because of interminable delays in laying cable connecting the factory to a new government-owned hydroelectric power station at Kremasta...
Homage to Aristotle. Now electricity has begun to flow, and the factory is in limited production. Its ultimate annual goal: 72,500 tons of aluminum worth $30 million, only 15% of which will be consumed in Greece. Already the plant has changed life for many of the local herdsmen and fishermen. After testing 8,000 of them for technical aptitudes, the company hired 800, is housing them for as little as $5.33 a month in a new town that boasts a well-stocked shopping center and a six-grade school. Though the company is exploiting assets that were unknown...