Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Telephone Company activities are generally divided into three distinct divisions. It may be recalled that in the original article on the Employment Graph, mention was made of the different divisions in a manufacturing business. The Telephone Company shows similar definite divisions, which are known as Plant, Commercial, and Traffic...
...Plant Division handles installation, maintenance, and the general work of installing and maintaining the material which is used throughout the Company. Into this field there go men with engineering or other mechanical training, electrical men, and others whose back ground would fit them for work in a highly technical organization...
...addition to the plant, traffic, and commercial departments, there are in the operating companies certain staff departments, such as statistical, purchasing, and accounting, into which men may go, but their particular abilities and specialized training in the company is the important factor...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...
...plant of the Cuneo Press, where Cosmopolitan is printed, numerous compositors set portions of an article that were "meaningless fragments" to them. Only Printer Cuneo and his chief assistant had been added to the circle of those who knew the truth. Under the lynx-eyes of private detectives the fragments were assembled and plates made. During the two weeks required to run off 1,850,000 copies of the magazine.* the detectives stood at their posts; at night the precious plates rested securely in a safe. Late one afternoon, five men with sawed-off shotguns robbed the Cuneo plant...