Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completed his dumbfounding of the mariners, discussed his craft. Said he : "My invention is bound to revolutionize not only navigation, but also the generation of power in every line of industry." By means of the Flettner cylinders, he stated, anything from a flour mill to an electric power-plant could be driven, at a fraction of the present cost of coal or water power. He is now negotiating with the Good-year-Zeppelin Co. with a view to equipping airships with the device...
...fallen Labor Government authorized the tremendous expenditures involved, and it is more than certain that the Tories will carry on. The orders were placed, one with the English Government dirigible plant at Barrow, the other with the private but all powerful firm of Vickers, Ltd., which Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, is said to control. The English call one the "Socialist" ship, the other the "Capitalist." But whether Labor or Tory is in power, the British always think of Empire, and the ships will connect England with India and Australia in four stages...
...miles south of Munich, high in the mountains, is the Walschensee- a lake. In 1918, the Bavarian Government decided to turn its vast water supply to the manufacture of power. Construction of a colossal plant began and is now nearing completion. This giant waterpower project will be the largest in Europe and is designed to operate all the Bavarian State railways by electricity and to supply vast units of power for private enterprise. So great will be the power available from the plant that some of it is expected to find its way to Austria and Württemberg...
Anthony Fokker, Dutch airplane constructor, arrived on the Mauretania, rosy and stout as ever, welcomed reporters. His factory at Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., is firmly established and building reconnaissance planes for the Army Air Service. His Holland plant built 500 planes in one year-more than the combined output of all other American aircraft factories. Most of these 500 went to South American republics...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey has a plant at Bayway, N. J. There last week a man suddenly became raving mad. He was taken to a hospital in Manhattan where he soon died. Others became affected. Within a few days, five men, all raving mad and confined in straight-jackets, died. In all there were 45 men-three shifts of 15 each-working together on the same job. All were placed under medical observation and care. Only ten of them were unaffected. The others all showed symptoms of the disease: headaches, nervousness, insomnia, lowered blood pressure. Such...