Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Impressive as they were, those performances were nothing compared with the one turned in by Debbie Meyer, a tiny, blonde, 14-year-old naiad from Sacramento, Calif. Daughter of a plant manager, Debbie startled experts last month when she broke two world records (for the 800-meter and 1,500-meter freestyle) in one race at Santa Clara, Calif. At Winnipeg last week, Debbie was matched in the women's 400-meter freestyle against the reigning world record holder, Pamela Kruse, 17, of Pompano Beach, Fla. She obviously has no respect for her elders. Leaving the aging Pamela struggling...
...those rates, some clients might feel piqued that the "temporaries" do not always look like the pert young things Kelly has been sending to plant gladioli and publicity in city parks under something called "the Kelly Beautification Program." The average temporary is a housewife, ex-secretary, somewhere "over 35" in age (one Seattle Kelly Girl is 81). But employers figure they come out about even with the temporaries, since permanent employees are expensive to recruit and command fringe benefits that add a third or more to basic wage rates...
Anticipating growing competition, Aeolian in 1951 moved Ivers & Pond south to Memphis and built the company's largest and most modern piano plant. It was close to the supply of high-grade wood, opened untapped markets, and, for a while at least, labor costs were considerably lower. Nevertheless, even a low-priced piano takes about six weeks to manufacture, while a more expensive one can take up to six months. As President Henry R. Heller Jr.-the grandson of the company's co-founder-puts it: "We can mass-produce to a point, but when you reach...
...tribesmen, they joined together to resist an invading army that was made up mainly of the rival Hausa tribe, whose members last year slaughtered thousands of Ibos in Northern Nigeria. The Biafran volunteers searched automobiles at roadblocks, practiced grenade throwing and ambushing. At a Port Harcourt automotive assembly plant, Biafran engineers rolled out their first homemade tanks-trucks plated with armor. Mechanics in the railroad repair shop at Enugu, Biafra's capital, were busy making bombs for Biafra's lone B-26 bomber out of casings filled with nails, broken bottles and kerosene...
...aims to maintain low prices made possible by tightly integrated operations. The drug and cosmetic factory in Chicago stocks the chain's shelves with Perfection cold cream, Orlis mouthwash, and Olafson vitamin tablets and capsules, of which the company makes 290 million annually. Eight ice cream plants churn out 3.2 million gallons of 21 flavors each year, while its roasting and blending plant produces enough coffee to fill 50 million cups. Watching over all this is a computerized inventory system...