Word: planted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Metropolitan Edison--one of the owners of Three Mile Island--worked with NRC technicians and nuclear engineers trying to stabilize the haywire reactor, local residents were left uninformed. Hazardous Xenon 131 gas seeped into the atmosphere, and high-level bursts of radiation escaped to the containment building as plant officials released steam from the overheating equipment. Such steam releases were made, initially, without notifying local civil defense officials, who later expressed outrage at the situation's handling. These releases may have left their cancerous mark on thousands...
...issued safety bulletins concerning the nine plants built by Babcock and Wilson, the engineering firm that built the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania. The new order could affect the other 34 pressurized water reactors designed by Westinghouse Corp. and Combustion Engineering Corp. Ingram said the NRC is not considering shutting down any nuclear plants...
Weber was rejected by craft-training programs at Kaiser's Gramercy, La., plant, in which half the places were reserved for minorities. The program had been established by Kaiser and the United Steelworkers, Weber's union, in 1974 to remedy racial imbalance in the skilled labor force. Less than 2% of these craftsmen were black, although blacks made up 39% of the local work force. During 100 minutes of oral arguments last week, Weber's lawyer, Michael Fontham, said that such an explicit racial quota violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans...
...turn of the century." Cohn's suit was brought on behalf of a handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping plant in the islands; and 2) took $750,000 from Canteen Corp. in return for a food concession at Ford plants...
...busting first baseman for the Cleveland Indians (1949-54) and one of the first blacks to play in baseball's major leagues; of gunshot wounds inflicted by two robbers who shot him as he left a bank with the payroll for his co-workers at the TRW Inc. plant where he was a union steward; in Euclid, Ohio...