Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...superficial causes of the conflict were incredibly trivial. At General Motors' Fisher Body plant in Cleveland early in the week the management postponed a meeting with a shop grievance committee from 11 a. m. to 2:30 p. m. A few key metal workers belonging to United Automobile Workers union promptly "sat down" at their jobs, bringing the whole plant, with its 7,000 employes, to a halt. Already idle were 1,500 Fisher Body and Chevrolet assembly workers in Atlanta who had quit ostensibly because several employes were fired for wearing U. A. W. buttons...
...President Baumhogger prepared to make the fur fly for Certainteed. Shuffled out of the management along with his predecessor, Chester E. Rahr, were five executives including 70-year-old Chairman George Marion Brown, who had been the mainspring of Certainteed ever since its beginning as a small tar-paper plant in East St. Louis in 1904. Precipitator of the shuffle was Phoenix Securities' smart President Wallace Groves, who bought Mr. Brown's controlling interest in Certainteed last spring. What Mr. Groves wanted was a stake in the current building boom. What he acquired was a big com pany...
...beneath the earth's surface the 39-year-old Dow Chemical Co. daily pumps thousands of gallons of water from which it makes hundreds of products. Seat of the briny grand duchy of Dow is Midland, whose citizens once brought suit against Founder Herbert Henry Dow because his plant was filling the town with vile odors. Money-making Dow Chemical still rests firmly on its Midland salt wells, but in the last five years expansion has been going on in various parts of the U. S. and Mexico where the superior Dow processes could be put to good...
...longer do Midlanders rail against Dow Chemical Co. as they did in 1900, for today Dow is the biggest thing in Mid land. Most of the company's 3,700 employes, including 500 scientists and technicians, live there. The plant stretches over 250 acres, contains more than 300 buildings, 16 mi. of railroad track. From 125 wells which look like oil wells come the salts from which Dow refines the ele ments of bromine, chlorine, iodine and magnesium, then makes the chemical compound's which reach the consumer under a hundred different names...
...than aluminum and good for airplane and machinery parts. At Marquette, Mich., on Lake Superior, a subsidiary called Cliffs Dow Chemical Co., in which the parent company has a 60% interest, makes charcoal, combustible gases and acids from wood. Near Wilmington, N. C., on the Atlantic Ocean, a big plant extracts bromine from the sea, manufactures ethylene dibromide for use in antiknock gasolines. Partner on a 50-50 basis in this venture is Ethyl Gasoline Corp., which uses the entire output of the seaside plant. For the last fiscal year Dow's profits from three year-old Ethyl...