Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Locomotive Co., Baldwin Locomotive Works and Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. The Lima company is so much smaller than the other two that the locomotive industry is often thought of in terms only of American Locomotive and Baldwin. All three companies are running at far below capacity (the Lima plant, indeed, shut down temporarily during the latter part...
...South Pole regions the heaviest part of the Earth. In comparison, the North Pole is light. Melting of South Polar ice may account for the axial wobbling that the Earth goes through during its revolution. Commander Byrd will try to find out. He will also study the minute plant and vegetable life that lives in the local ice; and, very importantly, the Antarctic weather. Tremendous winds blow there, influencing the weather of the entire Earth. Cold ocean currents start there, crawl along the ocean floors to the North Pole where they curve upward to cool the relatively warm North Polar...
...Ford plantations are on the Tapajoz River, tributary of the Amazon. By a contract made last year with the State of Para and the Brazilian Government, Mr. Ford promised to plant 3,000 acres of rubber trees within four years. In return his rubber will be exempt from export taxes for twelve years, and he may import free of duty all materials necessary to the development of his plantation...
Observers considered the sequestration a "plant," designed to strengthen the Censor's position when he moves to sequester other newspapers. The sensational story, it was explained, was inserted in Il Popolo by irresponsible underlings "late one night, after the editor had gone home...
...pure science have made him a rich man. Vast industries depend upon his inventions. He discovered how to dissolve acetylene in acetone; $20,000,000 worth of dissolved acetylene is sold over the world each year. He invented a way of liquefying air; the Air Reduction Co. has 30 plants using his process, is worth $25,000,000. He created neon lamps; cities and airports now glow redly, to his profit. He put waste coke oven gases under hyperpressures and low temperatures and got pure hydrogen, benzine, ethylene, nitrogen (fertilizer) compounds; vast factories run day & night in France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia...