Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mukden was once the Chicago of Manchuria. Now the city has almost no economic fat left. Only 10% of its industrial plant is functioning. More than half its 16,000 shops are boarded...
Nevertheless, most western industrialists, who had once felt that their prime need for cheap steel could be served only by plants owned by Westerners, were now willing to go along with the new setup. The expansion in Big Steel's western fabricating facilities was expected to spur its Geneva plant to produce at capacity (1,300,000 tons a year). Westerners hoped that the added volume would help bring down the price of western steel...
...biggest chunk-upwards of $200 million-went to Boeing, which got the bulk of the bomber orders. Orders for 162 more of its huge B50 Superforts will bring its total backlog close to $500 million. Expanding to get out the planes, Boeing had reopened its vast Wichita plant No. 2; and housewives and farmers were going back to their wartime jobs to help modernize B-29s and make B50 parts...
Next in line was North American, with orders for 768 jet fighters, trainers and bombers. North American, which recently leased the million-square-foot Vultee plant at Downey, Calif., would now have a $400 million backlog to work on. So far, it has turned out only five of its F-86 swept-back-wing fighters (see SCIENCE), but it hopes to produce them soon at a good clip. A production line has already been set up for the B-45, a four-jet medium bomber...
...Cortes' time, the Indians planted their crops in 16 inches of topsoil. Now they count themselves lucky if they plant in six. Corn, grown year after year on the same plots, has sapped the goodness from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief of the conservation section of the Pan American Union, warns that "unless there is a profound modification in its treatment of the land, the greater part of Mexico will be a desert within 100 years." (The peril, warned Vogt, hangs over all Latin America...