Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanded-vinyl cloth was developed in the U.S. in the Fort Edward, N.Y., plant of Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. three years ago and nobody much in the U.S. cared. When a Cohn-Hall-Marx representative showed it around Paris though, big-name houses like Courreges, Dior, and V de V saw big new possibilities in this soft, slick stuff that draped so gracefully and was so easily printed with clear color and bold design. Now some of the big Paris houses are backing away a bit from what bids fair to be an all-out fad, but U.S. manufacturers...
...Students for a Democratic Society plant to turn their small eight-month-old Dudley Street Action Center in Roxbury into a full-time center for community political organization starting this summer...
...death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory in the U.S., is building a pilot plant to tap power and extract chemicals from the large reservoir of hot brine under the Salton Sea in California...
...keep Taunus sales rising, Ford has poured $450 million into its German subsidiary since 1948, has increased its daily production capacity to 2,050 cars, nearly six times as great as in 1956. Although it opened a huge, 700-car-a-day Taunus plant only last year in Genk, Belgium, Ford is already trying to increase its production there and has sent agents crisscrossing Europe seeking a site for still another Taunus assembly plant...
...continued Ford's policy of keeping American influence at "low visibility." Of the 35,500 Ford Taunus employees, only 23 are Americans. To reassure his engineers that he can see beyond his accountant's ledger, Layton picks a new Taunus every night from the Cologne assembly plant, drives it to his suburban home, returns it the next morning with a meticulous check list of complaints and suggestions. Layton's optimism about autos is equal to Detroit's. "The European car market in 1964 was 6,000,000 vehicles," he says. "We proceed on the assumption that...