Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interim committee with a panel of four scientists was set up to keep the President advised. On June 1 the committee resolved that 1) "the bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible, 2) used on a dual target-that is, a military installation or war plant surrounded by or adjacent to houses and other buildings most susceptible to damage, 3) used without prior warning...
...Dominion wanted to get out of the war-born airplane business. So last October, Reconstruction Minister Clarence D. Howe began looking around for someone to take over the big Canadair plant, near Montreal, which was operated for the Government during the war by Canadian Vickers Ltd. Howe wanted the plant to go on making the North Star transport, a modified Douglas DC-4, thus 1) keep 7,500 workers in their jobs and 2) preserve the nucleus of an air industry. He could not find a well-heeled Canadian willing to do the job. But last week he found...
...which will find them the sort of job they prefer and can do best. The first general laborers will get the same pay as their Argentine peers, about $75 a month. Under Perón's grandiose five-year plan, which calls among other things for a steel plant almost as big as Pittsburgh's Homestead, there should be plenty for them...
...peacetime use for the 600-mile pipeline from oilfields at Norman Wells, N.W.T. across the Mackenzie Mountains to a refinery at Whitehorse, Yukon. Neither has Canada. So Canada agreed to let the U.S. sell its plant and pipeline to private buyers-if it could find any. In two years' time, if there are no takers, the plant and equipment will be abandoned...
...Times, where some newsmen are inclined to sit back on their big, fat prestige (knowing that their paper is the best place for important people to plant important news), Reston remains an unusual reporter. A cocky, calculating Clydebank boy who came to the U.S. at ten, he went to the University of Illinois, was a pressagent for the Cincinnati Reds, joined A.P. as a sportswriter in 1934. The Times hired him in London seven years ago. His persistent legwork and savvy worked as well with the State Department as with the Foreign Office: two years ago they...