Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece . . . the incalculably difficult task of rebuilding its plant, its production, its people's health and morale, and its governmental services, has been threatened with total defeat by civil disturbances, aided, equipped, and protected by Greece's northern, Communist-controlled neighbors. . . . We can note without surprise the cynical and barefaced coup d'état in Hungary...
...truth is that until now our teletypesetter department has never been normal. It was set up shortly after World War II began as the only practical means of producing identical copies of TIME simultaneously in different printing plants (our print order had grown too big for one plant to handle) and to speed up our news operation by getting editorial copy into print faster. No one had tried to make the newly developed teletypesetter do what TIME required of it, and we might have made this transition more happily in ordinary times...
...this waste is the Weyerhaeuser (pronounced "Warehouser") Timber Co., which owns 5% (about two million acres) of the timberland in Oregon and Washington. The world's biggest lumber firm, it devised a simple way to use sawdust, by pressing it into fireplace logs (Prestologs) at its Longview (Wash.) plant...
...plant will soon be opened at Longview. Then bark processing and plywood making will be on an assembly-line basis. Mechanical peelers will strip the logs, send the bark to the processing section, the logs to the saws; they will meet again as Silvacon glue and plywood...
...learn to shoot with his toy as efficiently as with an ordinary rifle. The Marine Corps and the British Government are considering them for possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which has been losing money since the end of the war, will hit the black...