Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pastime." Others were outspoken in declaring that Mr. Ford's abuse was political?with the sole object of promoting Henry Ford as a Presidential candidate in 1924. The whole matter rose out of Muscle Shoals. During the War the Government built a dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., and two plants for the manufacture of nitrates for explosives. The project is not yet completed. To hasten affairs the Government also constructed a temporary steam plant, the "Gorgas plant," 90 miles away on the land of the Alabama Power Co. The power company reserved the right to purchase the plant later...
Last month the Alabama Power Co. finally demanded that the plant be sold to it or taken off. Secretary of War Weeks (in charge of Muscle Shoals) notified Mr. Ford and Mr. Ford kept silence. On Sept. 24 the Gorgas plant was sold to the Power Co. under the terms of the contract...
Secretary Weeks asked Mr. Ford if his offer would stand for the remainder of the Muscle Shoals project, with this difference: that the $3,500,000 received for the Gorgas plant be deducted from Mr. Ford's initial payment...
Such an attitude assumes that education is a matter of mass production with capacity limited only by the size of plant and the amount of capital and labor (in the form of teachers) available. But Harvard has not been founded on such a concept and cannot now adopt it if she is to held her position...
Created originally to stimulate Winter driving and enable the automobile manufacturer to keep his plant going the year round, the closed car is very obviously no experiment, but a permanent fixture in the automotive industry. From comprising only 10% of the output of the industry in 1919, this type of car now represents 35% of annual production. Motor car leaders attribute this striking increase in closed models principally to their greater comfort in poor weather,their greater cleanliness at all times, their distinct economy in the long run, their generally better appearance. The increasing tendency for state officials to keep...