Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Subsidiary organizations, such as an electrical plant, a laundry, a dairy, a lumber company, were also expected to be sold or abolished...
...Westinghouse Airbrake Co.'s plant at Yaroslave was put up for auction to defray a Government rent claim of $125,000. There were no bidders, so the Government took the factory over for operation...
...required as in 1910, and more than seven times as many as in 1900. Just why there is such a demand for dollar bills is a mystery to Treasury officials, but there is the fact. The demand has now gone beyond the real capacity of the existing Government plant to print. In March, the U. S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing had to turn out 37,824,000 separate $1 bills, weighing altogether about 56 tons...
...extraordinary success of the Dodges dates back to 1901, when they took over a small machine shop for debt. Just at that time, Henry Ford was hunting for a plant in which to manufacture his first cars. Shortly after, the Ford Motor Co. was formed. Ford owned about a fourth of its stock at first, and contributed his idea, plans and inventive skill. The Dodge brothers participated heavily, turning in to the new Company their motor experience as well as their shop. Executive experience was supplied by Mr. James Couzens (now a U. S. Senator), at that time a thrifty...
...impede its progress. Accordingly, many inventors have sought maintenance of power at altitude by using centrifugal air compressors to keep the pressure and density of the air in the engine at a constant value. Such compressors have introduced great complexity and additional weight into the power plant. Paul Painleve, momentarily abandoning his Presidential Chair in the Chamber of Deputies to return to his old haunts at the Academy of Sciences, announces an invention by Louis Damblanc, builder of the Damblanc helicopter, which is to achieve the same end with far less complication. The cables tell us little except that...