Word: planted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Germany, under four-power control, would be administered as an economic unit. After it became clear that Moscow would block unification, the West stopped further capital shipments to Russia (she did receive some equipment, including a Daimler-Benz aircraft factory and part of the great Kugelfischer ball-bearing plant at Schweinfurt). The U.S. began to realize that wholesale dismantling provoked resentment among German workers, and seriously interfered with German-and therefore with West European-recovery, which was the West's supreme objective. In other words, dismantling was making Germany anything but "safe...
Texas' Senator Tom Connolly got off a history-making announcement in a speech before 400 businessmen celebrating the opening of a $7,000,000 Nabisco plant in Houston. Assuring the baking company officials that they had invested their money safely, the senator predicted: "There is not going to be any Communism in this country or in Texas...
...keeps Harvard's fine "athletics for all" program alive. Without gate receipts at the Stadium, there would be no money to pay for wherries and shells or for squash and tennis courts. Therefore, the people who have to sign checks for upkeep and replacements on Harvard's colossal athletic plant want big names in the Stadium, for big names mean big crowds. There is one flaw in this line of reasoning, however: big name opponents will not draw big crowds as long as Harvard teams lose by large scores. This season's attendance records prove that decisively...
Frank Lloyd Wright has designed what he calls "The New Theater" for the citizens of Hartford, Connecticut. Although he is almost 80, and has never before designed a theater plant, Mr. Wright is well up on the latest developments and trends in theater planning. This understanding, as well as he imagination and perspective which have prompted some to call him "the outstanding architect of the twentieth century," are apparent in his model of the Hartford playhouses, now being shown in Fogg Museum...
With peace, the Olins branched out into such products as rollerskates, flashlights and skeet traps. The newest product: a tiny battery not much bigger than a penny, for. miniature radios and hearing aids. Brother John figures that the new Cellophane plant will add some $15 million a year to Olin Industries' gross. Said he, with feeling: "We look forward with real enthusiasm to Cellophane...