Word: plante
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope to plant an infection and hope it will spread," Leontief said, supporting Mrs. Kluckhohn. However, the financial problems of the organization are important and must not escape attention by the American people he added...
Thus, most of the 21 buildings in Corn Products' $20 million sorghum processing plant, which was getting into full production last week, have no walls; some have no roofs either. Typical are the millhouse and the "steep house," in which grain is placed in large wooden tanks for treatment in a dilute sulphuric acid solution. The sea breeze keeps the steep house clear of choking sulphur fumes. The breeze also sweeps clean the floor under the silo conveyor belt, usually a collection spot for explosive dust...
Overhanging concrete canopies protect workmen from the hot Texas sun and occasional rainstorms, while low railings keep them from walking off a floor. Because of better design and more mechanization, the plant operates with only 250 production employees compared to almost 500 in an old-fashioned refining plant with the same capacity...
...authority. Acknowledging that practical recommendations require expert technical advice, they proposed a survey by a paid investigation agency. The Administration felt that this would be too expensive and instead finally requested Mr. Andrew Seiler, a food expert on the regular visiting committee, to make an informal study of the plant...
...order to accommodate the expected increase in requests for aid from student job-hunters this year, the Placement Office has expanded its Weld Hall plant. Alexander Clark, formerly a personnel director at Rockefeller Center, Inc., has joined Teele's staff as all assistant director...