Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...moving will take about five years to complete. Last year alone, about $3,000,000 was spent in timing charges. Samuel M. Vauclain, President of Baldwin, is known as a far-sighted executive. His determination to proceed with moving the Baldwin plant is thought by some to indicate his opinion that just now was a slack period in locomotive manufacturing, but a good one in which to sell city realty...
About two years ago, the Lincoln Motor Co., headed by Col. Leland, was forced into a receivership. After endeavoring to interest several wealthy interests, the Lelands at length went to Henry Ford. An agreement was arrived at between them, whereby Ford acquired the Lincoln plant, leaving Col. Leland in charge of it and apparently agreeing to indemnify approved creditors and stockholders...
...Leland now complains bitterly that Mr. Ford has not lived up to his part of this agreement. Leland's control of the plant, he declares, has been interfered with by Ford agents, and while Ford has paid $4,000,000 to the Lincoln's approved creditors, he has done nothing for the Company's stockholders...
...revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn't sell the Lincoln plant for $500,000,000. I had a purpose in acquiring that plant and I wouldn't think of letting it go." Ford's investment in the plant would not amount to more than $17,500,000, Leland declared, even if all creditors were paid off, and all qualifying stockholders...
Professor H. E. Barnes of Smith College will discuss the extent to which modern society is ruled by police force, and Professor E. M. East, professor of Experimental Plant Morphology in the University, will talk on "National Aspirations and the Food Supply...