Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untrue that desalted water at a cost of under 35? per 1,000 gal. is "far off." Westinghouse can build a plant producing 150,000,000 gal. of fresh water daily for less than 35? per 1,000 gallons. All we need is a customer. It is also untrue that disposing of "mountains of coarse, unusable salt" poses a problem. The residue of a large desalting plant is only 7% salt and can be discharged into the ocean...
...right of survival." Nonsense, replied Tennessee Democrat Ross Bass: "The American worker is never led into a box or into a factory where he has to work. He has the free right of working there or of seeking employment elsewhere. He does not have to work in a given plant. He does not have to pay homage to a labor union...
...shot an 18-year-old in the back, killing him instantly. That led to a series of flash-fire fights between rebels and loyalists resulting m four dead, 14 wounded. Last week the city rumbled with bomb blasts five in all, damaging a bar popular with U.S. troops, the plant of a noisily antimilitary magazine, and a drive-in movie Death toll: another two Dominicans...
Reassurance Needed. Business plans this year to increase its overseas spending for plant and equipment by at least 20% (to $7.4 billion or more), which some take as proof that the Administration's vaguely worded appeal for "voluntary" restraint has been a flop. Reports of White House dissatisfaction with this approach, which had been advocated by Commerce Secretary John Connor, were so widespread that Lyndon Johnson had to reassure Connor of his continued confidence. The Secretary did some reassuring too. "Businessmen definitely are not letting me down," said Connor, who once warned that if he failed businessmen would "find...
...Mainstream. Near Los Angeles, Douglas Aircraft has built a multimillion-dollar space-systems facility off Interstate 405 (the San Diego Freeway), plans to build all its new facilities near the expressway so that it can easily move personnel and material from plant to plant. Chrysler's decision to build a $50 million auto plant near remote Belvidere, Ill. (pop. 11,200), was strongly influenced by the proximity of 1-90, which connects it with Chicago and still allows quick access to the big Chrysler parts plants in Michigan...