Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company has a CIO contract, and when a union official died, President Heil closed down the plant, half-masted the flag, went to the funeral. Julius Heil thinks he has as much social conscience as any man. When he set out to become Governor of Wisconsin, he said he wanted to become the State's general manager, to run it better. When Phil La Follette cried out against his "money bags," Candidate Heil replied typically: "Sure I'm a rich man. And I bet you wish you had more vultures like me who employ men and provide jobs...
Julius Heil's hairy hands were sore and swollen from too much handshaking after his inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished...
...when times had changed, C. I. O. adherents captured many posts in U, S. Steel's E. R. P. They brazenly howled for higher wages, and set up an inter-plant council to link hitherto isolated "locals." Just how much of a nuisance this might have become U. S. Steel never learned. Having digested the Wagner Act, Big Steel suddenly dissolved its E. R. P., recognized C. I. O. Most of the industry followed suit, and today some operating men think that C. I. O. is cheaper and more satisfactory than...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
...Depending on the fuel requirements, the Babb Special's payload capacity is reckoned at from 8,000 to 10,000 Ibs., more than a Douglas DC-3 passenger transport. But a DC-3 costs $114,000. The Babb Special, which will be built in Babb's own plant, is to sell for from...