Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itinerary of Mr. Harlow, who has entrained from Westminster, Maryland, for a three day stay here, is a meeting with President Conant, with members of the present coaching staff, and with some of the players who will come under his guidance in September. He will also inspect the athletic plant and receive a general introduction to Harvard...
...Orleans Item-Tribune to join Publisher Hearst. His new job will complete a long, meritorious cycle: He began life as a $3.50-a-week stenographer on the Washington Times 35 years ago, when the late Walter Hutchins owned it. Arthur Newmyer, whose father ran a steam carpet-cleaning plant in Washington, rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred to the advertising side, his successful profession ever since. Twenty-three years ago Publisher James Mcllhany Thomson of the New Orleans Item-Tribune hired...
Ford Motor Co. is a Delaware corporation. Its main plant-the most magnificent aggregation of industrial equipment in the modern world-is at River Rouge, Mich. At the start of last year it had assets of $639,000,000, over one-half of which was in cash or liquid paper. During the past 30 years it has sold more than 22,000,000 automobiles, approximately the total number on the road today. Its principal stockholder once turned down an offer of a billion dollars for the company as a going concern. Since it was founded in 1903 with...
...takes an efficient executive staff to run a business whose payroll at one plant alone has been as high as 104,000 persons, whose purchases have run as high as $40,000,000 per month and whose operations include coal mines, glass factories, steel mills and a fleet of 37 ships. Yet the Ford staff is small. All the key men in the company can sit down together at a lunch table in a maple-paneled corner room at the Engineering Laboratory where the elder...
...foregoing paragraph, and it is only by extremely careful management that satisfactory results can be obtained. As a matter of fact the dining hall operations have shown a slight surplus in recent years after all expenses, which expenses, by the way, do not include any allowance for investment in plant and equipment, which amounts to over...