Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Minh's birthday proper, the U.S. had another surprise: the first purposeful bombing of downtown Hanoi. Carrier-based Navy planes hit the 32,000-kw. power plant only 2,000 yards from the city's center that supplies some 20% of the nation's electricity. Flying through fierce antiaircraft fire, seven U.S. planes went down, and MIGs came up to defend the Communist capital. Four of the Russian jets were shot down in dogfights, and in raids the next day Thailand-based Air Force planes shot down another five MIGs. That brought to 69 the number...
...trouble, which started at a plastic-flower plant in the northeastern part of Kowloon, quickly blossomed into the most prolonged disturbances in the colony's postwar history. Mobs of three or four thousand teen-age boys, usually led by older youths who wore Mao Tse-tung emblems on their shirts and waved the little red book of Mao's sayings, stoned hotels, overturned autos, set fire to a double-decker bus, and showered bottles on the police...
...determined effort to improve things. Last year, with Chinese help, industrial production climbed 12%, agricultural production 8.3% and overall national income 10.7%. Hoxha sent thousands of "Red Guards" into the mountains a few months ago to increase the amount of arable land, has launched.a national drive to have Albanians plant and eat more potatoes. He has discreetly stepped up trade with Yugoslavia and Greece, both of which he continues to vilify. For all that, Albania has a very long distance to go before it gets even near the 20th century. An Albanian farmer earns only $32 a month; small locally...
Jumping the Traffic. No matter how high the quality of the editorial product, costs must be kept down, the work force reduced, union restrictions eliminated, production fully automated. "One thing you've got to have is a modern plant," says Vincent Manno, the New York newspaper broker who brought Hearst, Howard and Whitney together for the ill-fated W.J.T. merger. "You can't spend less than $25 million and have the kind of plant necessary to put out a paper in the city of New York. A fully automated plant contemplates that the unions would permit...
...plant is not available, says Bellows, the paper could share production facilities with the New York Times -the kind of quasimerger that has taken place at considerable savings in other cities. As for the problem of distribution, that could be solved-unions permitting-by satellite printing plants fed by electronic transmission. "That way," says Denson, "you could jump across the New York traffic...