Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that gives this training, is obliged to turn away over two-thirds of those who seek admission because of inadequate laboratory space. These facts lend point to an announcement by the Department of Interior that it has included in its appropriation for next year $500,000 to improve the plant of Howard University- thereby doubling the number of medical students that the University can train...
Anthony Fokker, famous Dutch designer of the Fokker planes which were so effective a weapon for the German air forces, purchased the Witteman Lewis airplane plant at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J. He has sold many excellent ships to the U.S. Air Services in recent years and now plans to build commercial planes over here, in friendly competition with American manufacturers...
...school is cooperative. The elderly students support themselves by running a farm and industrial plant. Their wives do housework. As they work they learn theology. Archdeacon W. S. Claiborne, Episcopal, directs them. The roster includes two ex-sailors and many sometime clerks, mechanics, farmers...
...Klan, according to the editor of the Fiery Cross, intends to invest $500,000 in the plant and to raise a similar amount toward a permanent endowment. The curriculum will be modelled on the standard college course, arid the full quota of degrees will be given...
President A. R. Erskine, in the accompanying statement to the stockholders, pointed out that manufacturing operations of all plants were at capacity, with 41,000 cars scheduled for production in the third quarter. $3,022,967 out of the profits during the six months ending June 30, 1923, have been "plowed in" for plant expansion and current betterments, while $650,000 of the preferred stock was also retired. The regular quarterly dividends of 1¾% on the preferred and 2½% on the common stock were declared by the Board of Directors...