Word: plante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that we could use after 7 o'clock at night," recalls Keller. After the auto mechanics left, the pair would hook up the pipes and tubes and tinker into the night. Their coal came courtesy of Keller's brother-in-law Fletcher, who got it from a Union Carbide plant south of Charleston, W. Va., and shipped it up in feed bags to Syracuse on the Greyhound...
...make any money to speak of. But on the side, Smith invented a process for extracting oil from tar sand and sold it to Amoco for $1 million. American Electric Power, one of the more enlightened utilities, signed on to build a 125-ton-per-hr. Otisca coal-cleaning plant in Beverly, Ohio. AEP, which serves seven Midwestern states, and by itself produces 3% of the nation's electricity, budgeted $6 million for the project. "We went from a bare field to a fully operational plant within 20 months," recalls Smith proudly. The product of the venture was a powdered...
...business at AEP was disastrous. Smith, who managed the project, chafed at the complex corporate oversight the giant utility placed on the operation. Even small changes in the engineering required approval by as many as five separate authorities, he says. Company auditors questioned his cost accounting. And though the plant was producing the coal on schedule, AEP managers were dissatisfied with the comparative costs they were achieving...
...night Sonya walked over to our tree to make a routine check for pepper plant sprouts. But this time she started hugging...
...purchase and plant each tree will cost the University about $4000, Keohan said...