Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no genuine forward-planning except that forced on the reluctant Cubans by the Russians. With cane-planting time almost upon them, Castro officials were frantically scouring world markets last week for nitrate fertilizers that should have been ordered six months ago. Castro faces the problem of a physical plant that is disintegrating with no way to replace it. Last year a Castro official described the state of the country's railroad system as "desperate," noting that 75% of the locomotives operating in 1959 were out of commission. Havana Radio recently criticized a pulp and paper plant...
...sell. In a wide range of consumer industries, profit will measure a manager's effectiveness - and a portion of that profit may be kept for use in improving production through new tools or new-products research, as the manager thinks best. To foster sounder use of funds, the plant manager would now receive his capital from the state in the form of a loan-complete with interest rate...
...most of us felt that our passionate allegiance was not to American art or to any national act, but that there was such a thing as modern art; that it was essentially international in character, that it was the greatest painting adventure of our time, that we wished to plant it here, that it would blossom in its own way." The walls were breached when abstract expressionism took roots as the first U.S. art movement with international repercussions. "Since then," he muses, "I and my colleagues have been having our own odyssey, returning to our own Penelopes and Ithacas...
...most effective, the C-130 Hercules and the new C-141 Star-Lifter. On top of $7 million from the Government, Lockheed since 1957 has put $11 million of its own money into its C-5A project, set up a special division at its Marietta, Ga., plant and hired 2,000 people to work on research, mockups and planning of construction facilities. Into its full-scale mockup, Lockheed put a completely equipped instrument panel, hooked it up with a computer three-quarters of a mile away, and had test pilots "fly" the plane for hundreds of hours. With...
...harvest and beneficent weather. Steel demand tapered as the strike threat faded, and import competition remained stiff, serving to dampen any inclination toward rises in basic steel prices. Industrial investment this year will scale an alltime peak of $50 billion; that will expand capacity and reduce pressure on marginal plant. One powerful psychological brake to inflation: General Motors' decision to hold the line in auto prices (see following story...