Word: plant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convinced the TVA war was over, that there was still Lebensraum for Commonwealth & Southern's operating chain in ten States. Its Alabama Power Co. announced a project which Wendell Willkie would never have dared to try while the TVA fight was on: a $4,000,000 steam power plant in Mobile. At the same time C. & S. announced that $12,000,000 more would be spent later in plant expansions in Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. A day later came another proof that Dave Lilienthal and Wendell Willkie were beginning to work together. TVA and Commonwealth & Southern signed...
Twenty-two years ago, while the U. S. was trying to win World War I, the Du Ponts set a young engineer, Francis Breese Davis Jr., to building the world's No. 1 guncotton plant at Hopewell, Va. Eleven years ago the Du Ponts acquired control of the sick U. S. Rubber Co., the following year put dependable Organizer Davis in to explode a case of profit-making dynamite under it. Davis quickly found out where to plant the charge. Mass production methods had not been perfected in the $900,000,000 rubber industry. As he said afterwards...
...flight U. S. racing cars, publishes its half-year report at the end of April. Last spring it had encouraging news for its stockholders in spite of the fact that one of its major customers, Motorman Henry Ford, is rapidly expanding his own tire production in the River Rouge plant. For fiscal 1938's first half (October-April) Firestone turned a net income of $2,429,738. This year's six-month...
Cornell University's outspoken Professor Otis Freeman Curtis, a plant physiologist, has long wondered why educated people are such easy marks for propaganda and hokum. His patience has been taxed beyond endurance by the radio drivel of professors of astrology, by antivaccination and anti-whatnot laws, by a science professor who became a Faith Healer and let his son die of appendicitis without consulting a physician. Last fortnight Professor Curtis' patience finally boiled over...
...rival, and in its native Benton Harbor, Mich.-the House of David "As Reorganized by Mary Purnell," widow of its founder "King Benjamin." Mary Purnell specializes in tourist cabins, tourist-trade souvenirs. Judge Dewhirst runs the four famed House of David baseball teams, spry outfits all, a fruit-packing plant, his own tourist cabins and a cocktail room. He has paid some social security taxes to the Government, but unwillingly, plans to appeal in the courts...