Word: plante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England School Development Council's Spring Conference on "School Plant Problems in New England" begins at 10 a.m. today in Littauer Center and will last until...
...small, densely populated country such as Belgium can maintain a decent standard of living without a self-sustaining agriculture, because it has a high-geared industrial plant. But Puerto Rico is too poor in minerals and natural resources ever to support heavy manufacturing. It can and must develop light and medium industry. The alternative would be a future in which only an ever-increasing dole from the U.S. could prevent starvation. That is why Muñoz Marin, applying the self-help principles of the Marshall Plan, has enlisted Puerto Rico in the uphill struggle...
...Jobs. Last week PRIDC, now headed by energetic Teodoro Moscoso Jr., announced that under agreements reached with private firms, 40 new plants were in operation or planned; five other companies were dickering to set up factories. Biggest of the newcomers is Textron Inc., which abruptly closed its Nashua, N.H. plant (TIME, Sept. 27) and is now finishing the first of five factories to manufacture rayon and other textiles in Puerto Rico. Other new plants include Tele-tone (radio tubes and equipment), Crane China, Fashion Rite Gloves...
...light of this, G.E. had no intention of pulling in its horns. To show stockholders at the annual meeting in Schenectady how the company was expanding, President Charles E. Wilson took them on a tour through G.E.'s new $30 million turbine plant, the world's biggest, showed off some of the products...
...eating high off the hog for years, and paying a high tariff for the privilege. Last week, retail meat prices, which had edged up during the winter decline in slaughtering, were coming down again. Pork packers were glum because of a poor Easter trade; a big New York pork plant closed last week, and hog prices sank to their lowest level ($19.50 per 100 Ibs.) since OPA's end. Because of abundant grain for feeding, this year's beef was also coming down, and was a better grade than last year...