Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...readers and save shipping time. This has led to increasingly complex logistics. As we approach our Saturday-night deadline, all TIME stories-which have been justified and fitted on perforated paper tape-are transmitted by wire from the Time and Life Building in Manhattan to our chief printing plant, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, in Chicago. There the tapes are reproduced and automatically operate high-speed Linotype machines. After stories are thus set, and page forms completed, Vinylite impressions are made of each page, and these in turn serve as the molds for the curved press plates. Even before Donnelley...
Since factory output goals are either laid down in weight or quota by the planners a knitwear plant ordered to produce 80,000 caps and sweaters naturally produced only caps: they were smaller and thus cheaper and quicker to make. A factory commanded to make lamp shades made them all orange, since sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards...
...peasant common sense. Machine builders used eight-inch plates when four-inch plates would easily have done the job. "We make the heaviest machines in the world," sighed Nikita. His choice complaint, however, had to do with a Moscow chandelier factory: the more tons of chandeliers the plant produced, the more workers earned in bonuses. The chandeliers grew heavier and heavier, until they started pulling ceilings down. They fulfilled the plan, admitted Khrushchev angrily, "but who needs this plan? To whom does it give light...
...Right Man. As early as 1956, Evsei Liberman had published an article in Kommunist suggesting that local plant efficiency and quality could be improved by greater emphasis on profitability. For Liberman, then still an obscure scholar in a provincial school, it was merely the modest proposal of a man who knew the day-to-day problems of a plant manager...
Loeb first attracted public attention by showing that tropisms govern some kinds of animal behavior as strictly as they had been shown to govern plant behavior by his teachers. (A tropism is an automatic, mechanical orientation of an organism in response to some controlling factor in its environment. A moth which can fly only toward a light and a plant which can grow only in the direction of light both show positive phototropisms...