Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cream, and hot-selling Capitol Records, in which EMI Ltd. has a controlling interest. Current sterling-export restrictions are making expansion difficult but not impossible. Much as U.S. firms do in Europe, Bowater Paper went to U.S. capital markets for its share of a new $14 million newsprint plant that it is building jointly with the Newhouse newspaper chain...
JUST about everything Dow needs, it has access to on the plant. Midland's main water route, which is called a river but looks like a sewer, flows right through the area and Dow extracts 300,000,000 gallons of water a day from it. The company also puts back the same amount of used water each day, after running it through a $10 million waste cleaning plant. Dow provides the power for all its machines, in three Midland power plants which generate enough electricity to supply a city of over half a million people...
...people need, Dow provides for them--right there. Dow has its own 131-man police force, its own 20-bed hospital, two fire stations, and a mammoth cafeteria for its 12,000 employees. It seems, in fact, that a person can spend his whole life fenced within Dow's plant, at no great physical inconvenience--if he can learn to tolerate the smoke...
After talking with Dow's people (at least the people we met, most of whom were PR types) one might be excused for thinking that they had, in fact, spent their whole lives inside the plant. Except, of course, when they drove to nearby Saginaw Tri-City Airport to catch a flight to one of Dow's several hundred other plants and sales offices around the nation and the world...
There was a gap, but it was a barrier far more formidable than the barbed wire fence where a Dow guard takes away your camera while you go on your tour of the plant. It was a gap between people who enjoyed working for a profit, who accepted money flow as a measure of their success, and people like me who felt uncomfortable all day with the idea...