Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of our dealers." Then why this costly shutdown? No strike, no lockout, it was a cessation of work which followed when the contract between Chrysler and its C. I. O.-unionized workers (who commanded absolute majorities-and sole bargaining rights-in eleven of Chrysler's 14 plants) expired Sept. 30. While the two sides haggled over terms of a new contract, the union gave Chrysler an excuse to close first its great Dodge plant, then others in Detroit, Indiana and California, by slowing down on the job just as new models were coming out. Chrysler unionists voted...
...airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hangö, Turku and Vaasa, the big power plant at Imatra, gas mask factory at Lahti. After unloading their bombs, the planes swooped to machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes shot down a dozen or more Red attackers, whose pilots expressed surprise. They had been told it was safe to bomb anywhere in Finland...
Medical Superintendent of the huge plant for 25 years was Dr. Karl Albert Meyer. A practical old-school surgeon, Dr. Meyer never required the hospital's army of interns to attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of experience." But the American Medical Association, whose headquarters is Chicago, believes that all interns should taper off into actual practice with at least 80 hours of medical lectures during internship. Over this point Cook County's Dr. Meyer and A.M.A.'s education secretary, Dr. Irving Samuel Cutter, wrangled...
...found it about right: $100,000 profit on $1,500,000 gross. He decided to hold it right there, to take no business over that amount, never to be lured into the risks and discomforts of expansion. Through Depression II there were no layoffs at his $580,000 plant. And every year since 1934 Royal's net has just topped...
Today Canadian aviation's chief problem is to tool its factories, to train workers to get into swift, economical production. In addition to the six companies owning Associated Aircraft, Canada has six lesser independents. But no Canadian plant employs more than 1,500 men (biggest U. S. employer: Martin, with 12,600) and no Canadian manufacturer is willing to expand his plant unless the expansion is underwritten by orders in hand...