Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...United Auto Workers' Local 833 and Wisconsin's Kohler Co. remained locked in a mastodontic duel for more years than most Americans care to remember. The longest major labor dispute in U.S. history, the Kohler strike began in April 1954, when workers at the plumbing-fixtures plant stormed out in a disagreement with the family-owned firm over a series of union demands for higher wages and fringe benefits. After a two-month closure, the factory resumed production with nonunion labor, touching off six years of intermittent violence in the company town of Kohler. Pickets wore gasmasks, clashed...
...from the sea at 1,000 feet darted the 36 sweptwing F-105 jets armed with rockets and 3,000-lb. bombs. Over North Viet Nam's port city of Haiphong, they were mere minutes from the target: the Uong Bi power plant, newest and most modern in all North Viet Nam, supplying 33% of Haiphong's electricity and 25% of Hanoi's. Low cloud cover and a deadly hail of antiaircraft fire made the mission as hairy as any carried out over the North so far. But down went thousands of rockets and 14 tons...
...private hands at once. Their estimate of the size of the U.S. economy for 1966 has grown and grown-from a gross national product of $710 billion to $715 billion to the present $720 billion-and so has their concern that the combination of military outlays added to heavy plant-and-equipment spending will place a temporary overstrain on the nation's ability to produce...
...fact that business plans to step up spending for new plant and equipment by 14% for next year's first half (to an annual rate of $59 billion) was a major cause of the Federal Reserve Board's decision to boost its discount rate from 4% to 4½% , and a major reason why Lyndon Johnson reacted so mildly despite his disapproval. Last week the National Industrial Conference Board told the Congressional Joint Economic Committee that costlier money will bring only a tiny cutback in those plans. Among the 1,000 largest manufacturing companies, testified N.I.C.B. Senior Vice...
...President Hotel. Mrs. Suni Telan, 44, has just announced that she intends to sell stock in a new holding company that will be set up to control her far-flung business fiefdom, which includes hotels, an export-import firm, rice mills, teak and mining companies, an aluminum-fabricating plant, and real estate...