Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meets this year represent a material enlargement on last year's program, when they were all included in one contest of six events: and they are of especial interest in anticipation of the large new pool which is to be housed in the new athletic plant next fall and the consequent plans for a Harvard swimming team...
President Lowell's recommendation, as seen in the extracts above, included the closing of a portion of South Street, which now runs between the Freshman Gymnasium and the new athletic plant. It is possible that if this thoroughfare can be eliminated the two buildings will be connected to allow safe passage from one to the other in all weather...
Such trains promise great economies in air transportation. The greater the load which a power plant can pull the cheaper the charges for passengers or freight, and the better the profits for the entrepreneurs. The chief difficulty at present seems to be the initial motive power to start the train from the ground. Once in the air the motor pull for a train is not much greater than for a single plane. Railroaders and motor truckers have the same problem on an easier scale. A solution for the air seems to be multi-motored planes with all engines working...
...thin man (hardly five feet tall) with a brown suit which he has worn so consistently that it is indelibly associated with him. Of German descent, he is an Orthodox Jew, and rarely visits the Exchange on Saturdays except when there is a very threatening bear market. The main plant is in Philadelphia; the New York office, at No. 16 Exchange Place, is small as to staff and scarce as to furniture. On the walls hang many photographs of family Blumenthal groups-the various Blumenthals with their wives and children and an old group picture of the five brothers...
Nucleus of Ford French expansion lies in the Ford assembly plant on the outskirts of Paris. This plant is capable of assembling some 15,000 Fords a year-which is about the number of Fords sold in France prior to the scrapping of famed Model T. The introduction of the new Fords held up production, but the new "Henri's" are now ready for the French market. La Journée Industrielle, French industrial magazine, has been beating the tocsin, sounding the alarm, warning French automakers to beware of increased U. S. competition. Inasmuch as total French motor...