Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S STORY "DISASTER" PAGE 22, APRIL 28TH ISSUE, STATES: "THEN, IN A SPLITTING SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS . . . THE MONSANTO PLANT AND MOST OF THE REST OF THE WATERFRONT BLEW UP." THIS IS NOT CORRECT. NO PART OF THE MONSANTO PLANT EXPLODED OR BLEW UP. MATERIALS HANDLED BY THIS PLANT WERE INFLAMMABLE BUT NOT EXPLOSIVE, AND THE PLANT BURNED BUT DID NOT BLOW...
...overall policy to be made. That policy had to be measured against the background of the nation's adventures in foreign affairs since the end of the war. One fact seemed to have emerged already: seldom in world history had there been such an earnest effort to plant peace and seldom had a policy been based on such a grave miscalculation...
...sharp, tornadic wind whistled through the small towns, bringing death and destruction. Wild ducks, flying north, alighted on small lakes of rain water in the bottomland pastures. In Ohio, the cherry trees refused to bloom. In Illinois, some farmers gave up hope of putting in oats and decided to plant the acreage to corn or soy beans. Even light tractors bogged down in the squishy Missouri soil; one disgusted farmer near Independence sowed a 250-acre area in clover from an airplane. In the Dakotas, the Red River was flooding, and the seeding of spring wheat was only half done...
Trouble chez Renault. The crisis started when 2,500 workers at the nationalized Renault automobile plant struck for a ten-franc-an-hour raise. Their demands ran counter to the Government's hold-the-line policy (TIME, March 3), which the Communist Party (and its five Cabinet ministers) had approved. To deal with the situation, beetle-browed Benoit Frachon, Communist Co-Secretary General of France's General Federation of Labor, called in Eugene Henaff, a tough Communist disciplinarian (whose chief claim to distinction is that he has worn a red tie every day for the past eleven years...
Most damning charge was that Farben experimented on slave labor and concentration camp inmates with "deadly gases, vaccines and related products." To supply slave labor for its synthetic rubber plant at Oswiecim, Farben allegedly constructed a concentration camp and worked the men, women & children so hard that an estimated 100 a day died from exhaustion...