Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...maledictions in about equal proportions. Seldom is a President reluctant to perform as President Coolidge did last week. In the White House, he pressed a button which closed a circuit which passed a current which started a motor which set a-humming some news presses in a new plant of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal...
Capitalized at $1,000,000 by Henry Ford, Edsel Ford and a few others of their organization, the Companhia Ford Expansao Industriale de Brazil agrees to plant a portion of the entire acreage in rubber every year until the whole jungle is industrialized. A fleet of steamships will make regular trips from the U. S. to Brazil. In time, a fleet of airplanes will do likewise...
...Ford car, at least 375,000 orders have already been placed. Of these, 125,000 are accompanied by cash deposits. Hence the new plant, retooled, remodeled, is assured several months' capacity production. Two-thirds of the new factory will turn out the new model Ford, one-third will continue to manufacture parts for the old model...
Soon, in Boston, it was discovered that one William W. Ryan, janitor of a printing plant, self-styled "Organizer and President of the World League of Cities," had sent invitations, not only to cities in Russia, but to hundreds of cities in the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, China, Japan, India. All of these invitations were worthless...
Such delay is remarkable aside from the fact that it costs the Ford plant almost a million dollars a day. The Ford corporation that feeds and mans the big guns is a small, easily handled squad of three-its sole stockholders are Henry Ford, Mrs. Henry Ford and Edsel Ford. G. M. C., on the other hand, has a corps of over 80 high executives, its J. P. Morgan banking affiliations and 57,000 stockholders to consider in every maneuver. Yet the Corporation has proved itself the more resourceful of the two when it came to keeping abreast...