Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucks (20 more followed the first), the road (passable except in floods), and the fancy new slaughterhouse and refrigeration plant were part of the Government's plan to put the once cattle-rich llanos (plains) back...
...hundred men, women & children sweated away last week to convert an isolated Colorado canyon into an atomic foxhole. They hurried to finish roads, houses, power plant, workshop and administration building before atom bombs rained down to wipe out civilization. Dr. Doreal had said it would be "soon, probably sooner." When the radioactive dust had settled at last, they-the Brotherhood of the White Temple-would emerge from their hideout, help set civilization going again...
...Pittsburgh, the Fried & Reineman Co., one of the city's biggest meat packers, announced that it was closing its two plants for the first time in its 50 years. At its National Stock Yards plant near St. Louis, Armour & Co. laid off half of its 2,000 employes; other packers laid off thousands more. The plot was familiar. Everyone could guess the ending. Soon U.S. tables would again be bare of meat...
...brought disaster to Mikimoto. B-29s leveled his big Tokyo retail store, strafed his Ago Bay factory. But he still had half a million oysters in the bay, a fortune in pearls in boot boxes around his home. He set up a pill factory next to his idle plant, began grinding low-grade pearls and oyster shells into powder for an elixir (Mikimoto Pearlcalc) to give energy and long life, sold it to the Japanese Navy...
Already Nassaur has 1) set up Courtley production in Hudnut's Toronto plant, 2) swelled his advertising budget 400%, 3) concocted a new goo for the new market-a shampoo which, in a pinch, can also be used as shaving cream or soap...