Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, while the talks about the plant were still going on, Ford and the Israelis signed their first big deal, a $4,000,000 contract for 1,800 U.S.-made trucks and buses, which Ford will start shipping this fall. The terms: Israel will put up 40%, or $1,600,000 in cash (from a $100 million credit already advanced by the Export-Import Bank), and Ford will give Israel a three-year credit for the 60% balance...
...light blue sedan, husky William Gehring, 46, was moseying along the sand-rutted roads of northwestern Indiana. The air had a sharp but pleasant smell. Farmer Gehring sniffed it with proprietorial fondness, watched an echelon of his big tractors cut across the black muck and sandy loam. Trucks, loaded high with sweet-smelling green leaves, carried them to workers who dumped them into giant vats, then jumped up & down on them...
Since Gehring never grows mint on one field more than two years in a row, he is still a big potato grower-in fact, Indiana's biggest. His potato crop this year will gross an estimated $700,000. All told, his 5,800-acre farm, run like a factory, is a big business, with an annual payroll of $250,000, 350 workers, two $35,000 mint distilleries, 54 tractors and 150 buses, trucks, jeeps and other engines that weekly burn, in peak season, over 9,000 gallons of gasoline...
Meanwhile American Woolen and other weavers had a new kind of squeeze to worry about-the synthetics, which had already grabbed off big chunks of wool's summer suit market. Now rayon was getting ready to compete in winter wear as well. Mooresville Mills announced that it had developed a winter-weight rayon that looked and felt like wool, had the advantage of being mothproof, washable and only about one-third the price of wool...
...past year, prodded by the Department of Justice, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. and Paramount Pictures, Inc. have agreed to split their production-distribution operations and theater-owning functions into independent halves (TIME, May 17, 1948 et seq.). But the three other members of filmdom's "Big Five"-Loew's Inc., 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. and Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.-decided to continue fighting Justice's antimonopoly suit. Although they knew they would probably have to yield in the end, the longer they could stave off the splitup the more money they might make from continuing...