Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business is on a contingent-fee basis," boomed the firm's senior partner, a highly spiced ham called "the Colonel." "We know that a bigger verdict is a bigger profit." Eager to share his arts, the Colonel proudly conducted a "tour of the plant...
Another result of the electric loss, according to Floyd L. Kingsbury, foreman engineer at the campus' central power plant, was the total loss of heat at the University...
...disproving where the nickel content of a finished product comes from-a fact that enables the French to claim everything without being able to prove anything conclusively. At week's end, U.S. customs officials released one of the impounded shipments because it was destined for a defense plant, but the customs inspectors have orders to be hard-nosed about stopping French imports containing nickel. France has protested strongly to the U.S., and negotiations are going on between the two governments. The U.S. does not seem to be in any hurry to compromise, however, so long as General de Gaulle...
Rhone Poulenc has built a new chemical plant near Ottmarsheim, Peugeot a transmission works at He Napoleon, Hispano-Suiza a factory for aircraft components at Molsheim. Franco-Canadian Polymer is making synthetic rubber near the Strasbourg refineries; three other chemical companies have bought sites near by. All this activity has made Strasbourg, 250 miles from salt water, France's biggest port for exports. "Alsace," says Albert Auberger, president of the Strasbourg Port Authority, "is the center of a vast market of 170 million consumers-the keystone of the great arch connecting the North Sea and the Mediterranean...
...True Europeans. Alsace's strongest push has come not from the French but from foreign companies that want to locate in the heart of the world's second-biggest market. More than a third of Alsace's new plants are either wholly or partially owned by Germans; the Swiss have 15 plants, the Americans 8. German-owned Triumph employs 800 people at a corset and girdle factory in Strasbourg; other German companies are busy making shoes, office equipment, and engineering and precision instruments. America's Timken Roller-Bearing has built the largest foreign-owned plant...