Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Norma Shearer has signed a long contract with Goldwyn which will eventually net her $1,000 a day. Miss Shearer is a fairly good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...
Equipped with large-capacity pumps at her waterline, the Ethyl will roam the seas, sucking up 7,000 gallons of water per minute. A recovery plant on board is expected to extract 100,000 lb. of bromine a month, the ocean waves and winds taking care of sewage and fume problems that would be troublesome on shore. If the Ethyl proves a treasure ship, a bromine fleet may soon follow her to sea. The experiment may also open a rich field in other ocean extracts?for instance, iodine...
...With Mr. Baker's gift it is our expectation," said the report, 'that a complete plant will be built, comprising quarters for dormitories, dining halls, administration, classrooms, research, student and Faculty clubs, auditorium, a factory building for industrial management instruction, and athletics. Proper provision for extension will be made where this may be necessary. The plant will accommodate 1000 students. It is not expected that the buildings will be ready for occupancy before the fall of 1926. It is the hope of the Faculty that this School will not exceed 1000 students for an indefinite period in the future...
...Dearborn announcement, five or six of these planes will be ready this year, and the great Ford organization expects to sell them, without difficulty, on behalf of the Stout Co. The Liberty motor is now getting out of date and, according to the same announcement, the Ford plant will build new and more powerful motors to replace...
National prestige is indeed a delicate plant, influenced by seemingly inconsequential details. Who would have thought that the use of profanity could affect the standing of nations? Yet the central committee of the Anti-Blasphemous Society of Italy urges all the Italians living abroad to abstain from profanity, in order that the prestige of Italy may be helped throughout the world...