Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaknesses of military administration, said the committee, were nowhere more apparent than in the procurement of new equipment. "When the Army decided to create a great tank plant on a wheatfield in the outskirts of Detroit to be operated by the Chrysler Corp., it was not even able to furnish worthwhile drawings of the tanks it wanted...
...Bureau's activities report. General Secretary Daniel Mayer (a moderate) promptly resigned. Léon Blum pleaded with the rebels ("Participation of Communists in a government without any doubt serves the interests of Russia. It is not for us to enter into a government so that we could plant there little pockets of dynamite"). But Blum himself was rebuffed...
Phony Facade. The new Brazilian enthusiasm is industrialization. But the $110 million Volta Redonda steel plant, five years abuilding, designed to make Brazil self-sufficient in steel, has yet to be inaugurated. The $13 million Quitandinha Hotel, which was to attract all the world's wealthy tourists, is virtually empty. The National Motor Factory-one of the world's most modern-has produced by itself one airplane engine in three years of operation. There is a huge movie studio outside São Paulo, brand-new and abandoned...
Crossed Fingers. Nor had the Government's "break-the-strike" tactics eased the tension. To Hamilton, Ont., where strikers were maintaining a strong picket line around the Stelco (Steel Co. of Canada) plant, went some 400 Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Ontario provincial police. Their announced job was to keep materials and men who wanted to work moving into the plant. Across Canada, organized labor protested. At Hamilton, picketers defiantly said they would resist police interference. At week's end the police were still judiciously keeping hands off. But worried Hamiltonians walked on tiptoe, kept their fingers crossed...
Vulnerability of a plant to chemical killing depends on many qualities, and no two species are exactly alike. Agricultural chemists were studying crop plants and their commonest weed enemies from every possible angle. They were looking for the key difference which would make weeds vulnerable to some chemical which did not hurt the crop. Chances looked good...