Word: planted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enterprise. Finding a location is the Committee's biggest problem-not because it can't find a suitable city but because so many cities are seeking such an industtry to ward off unemployment. Boston would like to see the mill in adjoining Hingham or Everett; the only steel plant now in New England is a small one on the Mystic River flats in Everett. Hingham, however, has objected that it wants to keep itself residential and will not welcome the mill. Portsmouth, New Hampshire and the Maine ports have put in their bids for the plant, too, but their chances...
...company desiring to begin construction. But, the New England Council Committee has said that it would rather see private than RFC financing; as an initial gesture, the Council has formed a "New England Steel Mill Organizing Corporation" with a capital of $300,000 to promote private investment in the plant. The Council, too, has emphasized strongly that it would not care to have the New England mill merely a branch of one of the midwestern steel companies. Though the local enterprise will need help in organizing from the more experienced steel manufacturers, it will eventually, according to the Council...
...planning board further suggested that the Observatory grounds be turned into a neighborhood park since the College has "no immediate need" of the land for expansion of its academic plant...
Plump, apple-cheeked Gustave Marquot, who lives with his family 100 yards from the plant, spends two hours of his nine-hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another, but there is no doubt who is boss. A TIME correspondent recently watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much...
...Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field and arrived in Israel...