Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dredging operations since June that five feet of navigable depth have already been lost. "If the canal stays closed another year," said an American engineer in Beirut last week, "it will be in such bad shape that they might as well turn it into an irrigation ditch and plant potatoes around it." Even the Egyptians seemed to be looking for alternatives: off to London last week went an official delegation to discuss construction of a 42-in. pipeline along the canal to carry 50 million tons of oil a year from Suez at the southern end to Port Said...
...came upon chunks of wreckage that caused their instruments to go off scale at their maximum 2 million counts-per-minute rate-indicating a level that was above the highest count recorded at the Palomares, Spain, crash site in 1966. To minimize the threat that the radiation poses to plant and animal life, the recovery operation will continue until as much as possible of the 200 Ibs. of fissionable trigger material in the four shattered H-bombs and the contaminated pieces of the B-52 have been found...
While Hershey moves to offset the drop with other food products, the company is also expanding operations in its principal lines of chocolate. A second candy plant opened on the West Coast will save $1,000,000 annually in transportation costs; acquisition of 5,000 acres of almond ranches in California will provide Hershey with a source of cheaper nuts. Meanwhile, the company is test-marketing Hershey Chocolate Drink and a new candy bar called Rally. Will they be advertised? Not likely. "It's not necessary," says President Mohler, who keeps his grandfather's rocker in his office...
...over seven years ago, Chrysler Chairman Lynn Townsend, an accountant rather than an operating man, has introduced just about the tightest cost controls in the auto industry-even while approving major new spending for additional facilities. In the past three years alone, Chrysler has appropriated $798 million for new plant and equipment. Space has been increased by 14 million sq. ft., or 30%, and Chrysler is making more and more of its own parts, instead of depending on outside suppliers...
...work union men journeyed to San Francisco, where they set up "informational" picket lines around another Hearst paper, the San Francisco Examiner. Mailers, who had been negotiating with the Examiner, promptly walked out, thus also closing the locally owned San Francisco Chronicle, which is published in the same plant...