Word: planted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From 1933 on, Göring, a barrel of explosive black powder, and Milch, a cool steel machine, planned and produced. They built a carefully integrated but decentralized plant, with 1,700 factory units scattered all over Germany, most of them far from the hot French border. They established a military training course so brutally stepped up that only the fittest survive. They designed a simple series of warplanes, sensibly sticking to a few constantly modified basic types...
...flat plain 48 miles south of Chicago lie 60 squat red-brick buildings. They house the 5,500 insane patients and 760 employes of Manteno State Hospital. Finished in 1937, this dreary-neat plant boasts many a modern improvement, including special wells, tapping a limestone water-table 17 feet underground, which supply the hospital with water. Life at Manteno rolled along with the quiet, machinelike monotony common to State institutions until one day last August, when a half-dozen patients complained of diarrhea...
...finally cleaned up and that peace had returned to Manteno. The toll: 384 stricken, 47 dead. Engineers, examining the miles of Manteno sewers, suspected a small leak in the tiles, believed that contaminated water had seeped into the wells. Prospect was that Manteno would either build a filtration plant on the grounds or start piping water from Kankakee's safe water supply ten miles away...
...four years little Maxine lay quietly in bed, while her mother cleaned, bathed, and turned her, fed her through a stomach tube. She grew slowly, like a plant in the dark; her rosy face turned white and blank. One day last week, six-year-old Maxine at last awoke. During her long sleep, she had lost her ability to talk, walk, or command her muscles in any way. She recognized no one, instinctively gulped her food like a newborn infant...
...that "in the present state of the art, there probably would be no great difficulty in equaling with rockets the performance of the German long-range gun that bombarded Paris from a distance of 75 miles. But instead of firing shots of moderate caliber at long intervals, a rocket plant could fire the equivalent of 24-inch shells about as fast as desired. Such a job would be no more ahead of present practice than wartime bombing raids were ahead of the airplanes...