Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aluminum Ore Co., of Mobile, Ala., invited White to experiment at its plant in breaking down suspensions of solids, etc.; Aluminum Laboratories, Ltd., of Kingston, Ontario, desired complete data on the instrument's application to metallurgy...
...reduced Stalingrad's population from 500,000 to 22,000, its housing to 5% of prewar, its plant capacity to zero. Today, according to the state's priority system, the city has 70% of its prewar plant capacity, 60% of its prewar population and 20% of its prewar housing. Up to a point, the Kremlin is right to concentrate on long-range reconstruction of industry rather than on immediate comforts, such as housing and consumer goods; but under the brutal 70-60-20 Stalingrad ratio, which puts men at least ten years behind machines, human beings...
...great 1,2500,000-ton plant at Jamshedpur is owned by the Parsi Tata clan and manned mostly by Hindus...
Thirty Corsairs roared over Stratford, Conn. (pop. 30,000) as some 25,000 persons jammed their way through the Chance Vought plant of United Aircraft Corp. There they gaped at the new jet fighter XF6U-I and the fighter-bomber F4U-5, latest and most powerful of Chance Vought's redoubtable Corsairs. The occasion was the 30th anniversary of the founding of Chance Vought. It was also an occasion for United to tell the world that it is doing fine, at a time when almost all aviation companies are losing their shirts...
...Rentschler, who had resigned as president of Wright Aeronautical Corp., started Pratt & Whitney in a rented plant on a $250,000 loan. Four years later he moved into top position when P. & W. merged with Vought, Hamilton and Sikorsky...