Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, here's a question. . . . Suppose a man builds a factory and equips it with a lot of modern machinery. Say a million for the plant and another million for the equipment. Then he digs up a lot of orders and hires a force of 500 men and puts them to work making cheese or rolling pins or whatever. . . . Well, what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group...
...owner of the plant I speak of has fire insurance, tornado insurance, and life insurance on the lives of the principal officials. His largest cash outlay (in a good many plants) is for labor. Is he justified in hiring one of us to make certain that his labor machine doesn't go sour? I'll not pretend to answer. I'm retired and don't give a damn...
Colorless, odorless, non-inflammable helium gas, with 92% of hydrogen's lifting power, is so far produced in large commercial quantities only at the 18-acre Government plant at Soncy, seven miles from Amarillo, Tex. There by a complicated process of washing, cooling, and separation it is extracted from the natural gas underlying that area. Present production is about 5,000,000 cubic feet out of a 24,000,000 cubic foot annual capacity-with reserves estimated at enough for the next 5,000 years. Two other small plants in the U. S. at Dexter, Kans. and Thatcher, Colo...
Planned production as a New Deal phrase means Government-planned. Last week in Detroit three private plans which might interest Friend Bill were announced. By next week Ford Motor Co. hopes to take back about 25,000 River Rouge plant workers. Chrysler Corp. announced it will take back 55.000. Hudson Motor Car Co. announced it will take on 6.000. In two respects Hudson's announcement was the biggest news because i) 6.000 more men will double Hudson's present payroll. 2) the purpose of the increase is to bring out a new low-priced car. It will...
...content with that. Henry Ford next led a group of reporters about his plant. He opined that the most prosperous era in U. S. history is just around the corner because industry is opening up a whole new field for agricultural byproducts. Picking up a curved sheet of a composition which he said was made from soybeans, the angular old man jumped enthusiastically up & down on it, exclaimed triumphantly: "If that was steel it would have caved in." Almost entire cars, said Henry Ford, will soon be made of such things as soybeans...