Word: planted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George Foerstner, who designed the colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business got big enough to need more capital, he got Iowa financiers to pay Amana $1,750,000 for the plant. The money helped boost Amana Society's original $50 stock to its present value: $3,600 a share...
...Labor Day approached, the U.S. was in a spending mood. The freest with their funds were those who pinched pennies most tightly only a few months ago: U.S. industries. Last week Washington economists reported a fresh surge in expenditures for new plant and equipment. Capital investment has climbed from an annual rate of $30.6 billion in the first quarter to $32.3 billion in the second to a brisk $33.4 billion, may well hit $35 billion in the fourth quarter-if a prolonged steel strike does not sabotage the economists' projections...
Money. Many a consumer who sets out to buy a house or TV set and many a businessman who embarks on plant expansion or modernization is discovering that it is harder to get the money he needs to do it-and the money costs him more. As the economy boomed, the supply of money over the past few months has got steadily tighter. For how and why this happened, and what it means to the economy, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Tighter Money...
...Brazilians, who regard avoiding taxes as a kind of fifth freedom, Ultima Horn reported that the only reason Birrell did not want to go home was a mere matter of income tax evasion. O Globo reported a Chaloupe statement that Birrell wanted to build a $14 million electronics plant in Brazil, and that "it can only be deduced that interests that do not want to lose these markets are causing difficulties." Another newspaper called the waiting Hallisey a mercenary hounding Birrell for a supposed $150,000 reward-a bounty that would make any Brazilian cop drool...
...Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents, and so she breaks out of the snug roundhouse and into an office job at a nearby munitions plant...