Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion the report declared: "An analysis of the reports filed by the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton with the Interstate Commerce Commission clearly shows that it is being operated as a 'plant facility' to the Ford Motor Co. . . . The Ford Company has exercised its power in both directions, both as a purchaser of goods shipped into Detroit and as a shipper of manufactured products out of Detroit. In brief, the one important factor in the increased traffic of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton since 1920 has been the tonnage diverted to it by the Ford Motor Co., which might otherwise have gone...
...runs his enormous plant on a profit-sharing plan?a plan of bonuses, based on a sliding scale dependent on the dividend rate. His reasons for so doing, he explains as follows: worked in a bank as a young man. I started working at 14, when I left school and got a $3 job with an insurance house. My superior left?I had been doing his work, was thoroughly conversant with it?should have had the job. I expected it?rny fellow-workers expected it. Well, I didn't get it; some relative of one of the directors...
...average of those to date. If it is one in which; through conviction or inclination, the instructor gives no tests additional to the mid-year and final examinations, hour examinations become necessary in order to produce what is required. And the fruit is generally as good as the plant. As a farmer might (but doesn't) put it: "Quickly sowed, quickly growed." It is in courses such as the latter that one hears the familiar apology: "I don't like to give you an hour examination, but the Office requires...
Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures in New York, was prompt to address a letter to the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, attacking the A. T. & T. Co. as a monopoly against the "common people" in the approved Hylan manner. His letter has opened up again the whole question as to the future status of the control of radio broadcasting, and whether it shall or not be allowed to drift into exclusive control...
...further transformed by the Ostwald process (another catalytic), into nitric acid. The Haber process was the industrial and agricultural mainstay of Germany in the War. Shut off from her tremendous imports of fertilizers and explosives, her biggest dye-works, the Badische Anilin und Soda-Fabrik, remodeled its plant to manufacture fixed nitrogen and nitrates, and the Central Empires became chemically independent of the rest of the world...