Word: planted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been some changes already, of course. The cost of living has risen by about 25% in the past six months, and shop owners have had to reduce (but not cut off) their imports of luxury goods. There is a shortage of both new and used cars; the Ford assembly plant in Salisbury has had to curtail production because of a shortage of parts, and the nearby Rover plant has started turning out Japanese Isuzu trucks to replace the British lorries it once assembled. Tobacco, once Rhodesia's principal source of foreign exchange, is now piling up in secret government...
...replace internal-combustion engines in enough numbers to begin to solve the auto-caused air-pollution problem. As for its power source, it is only a little more advanced than the lead-acid electrics of the 1920s-or the golf carts Westinghouse already builds at its Marketeer Division plant in Redlands, Calif...
...also the world's largest manufacturer of chain saws and No. 3 maker of outboard motors, was searching for a freshwater site on which to test his engines. After buying out a fishing camp, he quickly built a $250,000 test facility-now expanded into a three-building plant where 180 employees produce chain-saw components and outboard-engine coils, carburetors and regulators...
Even though other processors are now in the act, Wakefield still claims more than a commanding 25% share of U.S. frozen-crab sales. This month he will open a new, $1,000,000 packing plant at Seldovia, on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. In all, he is spending $3,500,000 in rebuilding and expansion programs. Meanwhile, supply cannot keep up with demand, and the word from Wakefield's comes through advertising. "Are you having trouble finding Wakefield's King Crab?" queries one recent full-pager...
...growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...