Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million for an explosives plant and the expansion of the government's $155 million petrochemical industry...
...beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more babies mean more homes, more schools and greater demand for his 350 products, which range from cement to ceramic tile. And that means more plants. Having just returned from California, where he inspected Gypsum's first plant in the West, Baker last week flew to Jackson, Tenn., to celebrate the opening of Gypsum's 72nd plant, which will provide jobs for hundreds of young Tennesseans...
...pasta exports have risen 1,400% in a decade, crossing practically all national borders. of Paolo Agnesi & Sons, Italy's oldest pasta maker and (with $10 million annual sales) one of its largest. Anticipating a 50% increase in exports this year, Agnesi has just opened a milling plant that processes 600,000 lbs. of grain daily for 75 varieties of pasta. It is the largest plant of its kind in Europe...
Only by Fork. The 140-year-old family-owned Agnesi company is a heterogeneous blend of old and new. The new plant, so automated that only three men handle all milling operations, sits among old buildings in Imperia, 80 miles southwest of Genoa. Surrounded by hills and served by a wheezing one-track railroad and the winding two-lane Via Aurelia, a relic of the Roman Empire, Agnesi's Imperia businessmen air-freight their goods to Scandinavia more easily than they can ship it to Rome. From their isolated offices, they ring up the highest long-distance telephone bills...
Died. Franklin Delavergne Jones, 65, Pennsylvania chemist who in 1944 discovered the nation's most widely used herbicide, 2, 4-D; of cancer; in Philadelphia. Experimenting with synthetic plant hormones, Jones found that one killed broad-leaved plants instead of stimulating growth, leaving such narrow-leaved plants as corn unscathed; it soon became the standard ingredient in preparations for controlling poison ivy and dandelion, paved the way for a host of other weed killers...