Word: plante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME stated that the Memphis Press-Scimitar "last week ran a glowing story on expansion plans for a local Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant-without mentioning that 2,600 of its 3,600 employees have been laid off." The only recent Press-Scimitar story about possible Firestone expansion in Memphis was printed in the Press-Scimitar on Nov. 19, 1957. Raymond C. Firestone, company president, on a visit to Memphis, was asked by a Press-Scimitar reporter if the company planned any expansion in Memphis in 1958. He replied:'"We have expanded the Memphis plant every year...
Even before the final vote was taken, 1,000 workers walked out of the Henschel engineering plant to parade the streets in protest. A delegation from the Council of Protestant Churches called on Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in an effort to persuade him to change his stand. Later, 2,500 cheering partisans jammed into Frankfurt's Kongresshalle to hear Socialist Leader Erich Ollenhauer call for unrelenting opposition on a nationwide basis. "The Bundestag has decided!" he cried. "But it is not too late. We must...
CHRYSLER SHAKE-UP REPORTS, buzzing in Detroit because company's output this year is off 60% and heavy first-quarter loss is expected, picked up speed when two forward-looking vice presidents quit last week: No. 4 Man James Cope and West Coast Plant Boss Robert T. Keller, son of former President K. T. Keller. But President L. L. Colbert denies persistent reports that he will move up to chairman and that Veep William C. Newberg will become president...
...Offered: Plants & Equipment. For the foreign industrialist who brings his know-how to one of the underdeveloped western counties-Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Donegal, Kerry, Sligo or Leitrim-the Irish government will buy a site, build a plant for him, train his workers and pay half the cost of plant equipment. Elsewhere, Ireland will grant two-thirds of the cost of the plant up to $140,000. In addition, foreign enterprises will be freed from income taxes on export profits for at least five years, excused from 67% of local property taxes for at least seven years. Dublin will guarantee...
...trade mission announced one of its biggest catches to date. With Rustyfa, a combine of British companies, the Russians placed an equipment order of between $28 million and $42 million for one of the biggest tire factories outside the U.S. To be built at Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, the plant will turn out 2,000,000 tires a year...