Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Henry Ford watched pensively, last week, while a line of motor cars no bigger than bathtubs moved briskly toward completion in the huge, humming plant of Morris Motors Ltd., at Cowley, England...
...bomb exploded last week near the plant of La Voce Italiana in Scranton, Pa., injured three people, wrecked nearby shops, but did not damage the newspaper's press. Police searched for a possible connection between this and the bombing on New Year's Eve of the Scranton Sun, earnest crusader against crime, smallest English daily in Scranton, published by W. H. Hallstead...
...University swimming pool, gymnasium, and locker building will definitely be constructed on the site of the present Freshman Athletic plant, it was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics...
...great imperialist of U. S. contracting. Upon five continents his engineers are carrying the dynamic principles of U. S. business into lands where U. S. political influence will perhaps never penetrate. A huge dam in Abyssinia, a railroad in South America, and the construction of a great hydro-electric plant in Italy-these are a few of the big jobs now under the aegis of J. G. White, the son of a poor Pennsylvania village preacher...
...expansion of chain store business. Such tactics may indeed stir food chains to merge. At present they number about 800 (with 60,000 stores competing with about 300,000 independent retail stores). Hitherto chain stores have been highly individualistic, each system spreading out like strawberry vines from a parent plant. Nor have they, except for the Kroger grocery stores and the J. C. Penney dry goods stores, done much to soften public opinion excited against them by the neighborhood store keepers. Kroger's and Penney's this year have set afoot large campaigns of "institutional" advertising, praising...