Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With Ford plants again running on heavy schedules, with Model A carrying on the tradition of illustrious Model T, with steady growth of Ford European companies, Henry Ford is well pleased with the automotive business and vigorously engaged in making his company bigger, better than ever before. Heavy, however, has been the personnel overturn at the Ford plant, particularly executive personnel. Detroit has become almost blasé concerning appointments, rearrangements and resignations among the men who help make the Ford...
Editorial policies of the purchased magazines will remain the same, McCall President William B. Warner announced. Edwin Balmer will continue as editor of both. But their printing may be transferred from Chicago to a McCall plant at Dayton, Ohio...
...next large Stone & Webster contract was a second job for Paperman Warren, to build a power plant that would carry 1,000 h.p. for seven miles at 1,000 volts. Such a plant seemed then a great project, though since that time Stone & Webster have constructed such power plants as that of Southern California Edison, which carries 250,000 h.p. for 250 miles at 250,000 volts...
Stone & Webster got into utility operating (as distinct from plant construction) indirectly through the panic of 1893. During this panic there was a general collapse in the stocks of public utility companies. Holders of utility stocks were approached by astute J. P. Morgan, who bought the apparently sinking ships for about one-third of their original values...
...name in the U. S. Inventor Bosch contended that his name did not become the property of American Bosch Corp. in 1917 since he had an agreement with the original company that they might use his name only so long as they bought their materials from the German parent plant. But no written agreement to this effect had been made. Inventor Bosch's contention collapsed. Nor could he protest the original seizure of the Bosch stock, because of a restraining post-War German-American treaty. Under this treaty Germany agreed that its citizens would institute no legal proceedings over...