Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant plant geneticist whose hybridizations left his fellow Americans with infinitely improved strains of corn, juicier, hardier strawberries, and hens that would lay more eggs on less feed. Only last March he was in the Dominican Republic trying to introduce strawberries as a badly needed cash crop...
...could find no mechanical defect in Q-29BW's backup fuse. Then why did it blow? The question created a behind-the-scenes divergence between U.S. and Canadian power experts. Privately, American officials expressed doubts about the design of the backup relay system in service at the Beck plant. But Ontario Hydro officials claimed that its protective safeguards were comparable to those in use on U.S. high-voltage lines. Robert H. Hillery, Ontario Hydro's operations director, insisted that the disconnect-setting of Beck's backup fuses "was well above the load we were carrying." Hillery conceded...
Lift from a Plane. Because the basic ramjet is just about the simplest power plant ever to be airborne, its promise has always excited aeronautical engineers. Unlike the conventional jet, it has neither a complex turbine nor a compressor; it is an open-ended cylinder, known as a "flying stovepipe," with only fuel injection and ignition systems inside...
...plastic injection-molded cabinets (with which it hopes to fight wood's new inroads), is spending $8,000,000 to double its capacity, will hire 300 new workers. Corning Glass, the supplier of 90% of all the basic glass "bulbs" for color tubes, recently opened a third plant in Indiana to satisfy its customers' appeals for more tubes. Such producers of rare earth as Molybdenum Corp., American Potash & Chemical and Ronson, which supply the metallic elements europium and yttrium for the coatings that brighten color TV tubes, are rushing out orders at $1,000 per pound...
Very Honorable. The goods badly need inspection. In 1963, only an insignificant 13% of East Germany's trade was with the West-and the poor quality of the goods must share much of the blame. A plant in the town of ZellaMehlis, for example, sent roller bearings to India, but had the whole shipment refused and returned because it was of inferior quality. A marine-engine factory in Magdeburg that makes cooling systems for export has gained a reputation for producing faulty equipment, including a shipment of engines that broke down shortly after arriving in Turkey...