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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are minor woes compared with the ones that the government will face when the new Tolyati Fiat plant in the Middle Volga region is completed in 1969. Right now there are only about 1,000,000 cars in Russia, and only 75,000 in Moscow, a city of 6,500,000 people. Moscow has only eight filling stations and Leningrad just three. Yet the Fiat plant, for which the Italians are providing equipment and technical advice, will produce some 600,000 cars a year by the early 1970s-more than triple the present Soviet output. Mechanics of the Soviet...
...recovery plane. Dartmouth Botanist Charles J. Lyon took a look at Bio-satellite's wheat seedlings and found that they had germinated, sending out roots and sprouts that were normal in form but sprawling in unusual directions be cause of the lack of gravity. North American Aviation Plant Physiologist Samuel Johnson opened the pepper plant packages and found their leaves folded down and turned under. "This is astounding," he said. "It shows that gravity really controls the orientation of a plant to a much greater extent than I had anticipated." And to Biologist Rudolph Mattoni, in charge...
...program by no means represents Irvine's last roundup. Confining development to 40,000 acres along the coast, the company will keep its rich central plains under cultivation, preserve its inland mountain acreage as a wilderness recreation area. And while some companies have been allowed to buy plant sites outright (at prices as high as $32,000 an acre), the bulk of the developed property wilt be leased rather than sold-which guarantees Irvine a handsome income, plus the chance to sell out later at still higher prices...
Eleventh-Hour Appeal. Reuther's men seemed scarcely more troubled than the companies. At Ford's River Rouge plant, workers showed up for their last shift in a festive mood that resulted in several stoppages on the assembly lines. The first of the U.A.W.'s 160,000 Ford employees walked off more than eleven hours before their old contract expired. The strike was almost anticlimactic, even though it closed down 93 Ford plants in 25 states. Reuther announced the walkout shortly after midnight, then went home to nurse a case of laryngitis he had picked...
...inexpensive "dry" papermaking process, which eliminates the heavy machinery and vast water supplies needed by current paper mills. The U.S.'s Kimberly-Clark and several other large paper companies have paid fees of $25,000 to inspect and run their own tests in Kroyer's pilot plant at Aarhus, may soon buy rights to use his manufacturing techniques. Inventor Kroyer sees no end to the possibilities, claims that the process can be used for continuous production of "almost anything from building blocks to bridal dresses." He has already run off several of the latter at a cost...