Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the discovery, in the vicinity, of natural gas. Kokomo changed from an agricultural depot to a thriving manufacturing centre. After Elwood Haynes made his first successful run with his horseless carriage on July 4, 1894 at Kokomo, the town became Indiana's Detroit. There Haynes located his plant and there also was built the fleet, low-strung Apperson '"Jackrabbit...
Kokomo started a decline in the early 1920's. The gas had failed. The Haynes and Apperson factories closed. But Kokomo's 32,000 inhabitants still point with pride to Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.'s Kokomo plant, to a dozen metallurgical and machine works...
...Maintenance and Operation of Grounds and Buildings, Including Houses and Dormitories 1,638,985.10 111,540.21** Student Scholarships, Loans and Prizes 673,325.49 26,413.51 Dining Halls and Faculty Club 1,101,131.43 37,869.20 Athletics and Physical Education* 530,566.78 84,605.44 Medical School Heat and Power Plant 261,534.84 1,227.70** Annuities, Retiring Allowances and other Non-departmental activities 597,397.14 17,192.39 $12,444,484.99 $541,757.68 *Exclusive of Salaries of Officers and Maintenance of Buildings **Increase
...Court did last fortnight) or to uphold a state mortgage moratorium law and then balk at the idea of pensioning all aged railroad employes, fixing the price of ice in San Antonio or the price of a hair cut in Jersey City or enforcing collective bargaining in a steel plant-all on the legal theory that these things help to regulate and maintain the free flow of interstate commerce...
Quick to adopt each new improvement in fire-fighting apparatus, the successors of Truckson La France branched into chemical fire wagons, doubled their business when fire trucks were motorized. They opened a plant in New Jersey to manufacture regular commercial trucks, had to abandon it when Mack Truck and others retaliated by invading the fire apparatus field. Just before Depression American-La France bought out Foamite-Childs Corp. of Utica, makers of "Foamite," a patented powder which mixes with water to produce a fire-fighting gas said to be superior to the old sulphuric acid, soda and water...