Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would go around talking to everybody, saying that he was for Bricker for President. He said to me, 'Do you know why I have been arguing for Bricker? Because...
...spectacles, he squeaked invectives and obscenities at the top of his lung power, slammed telephones, kicked the furniture and insulted the mentalities of his reporters, editors and make-up men. The staffers took it calmly. They knew that five minutes after every squall Lazareff would be rushing around the plant and tenderly calling everybody "mon petit Coco...
...many-armed U.S. Government last week was engaged in a tug-of-war with itself over Preston Tucker, designer of a rear-engined automobile named the Tucker 48 (once the Torpedo). The War Assets Administration had leased Tucker the $70 million surplus Chicago Dodge plant, world's largest. He had promised to have $15 million in cash on hand by July 1 to build cars...
...Tucker in Red. In the nine months that he had been in the Chicago plant, Tucker had displayed remarkable ability to get Government help. His car-making consisted in building one handmade Tucker (see cut) painted a fiery "Tucker red." WAA had leased the plant to Tucker after turning down an offer of $12 million from the Consolidated Grocers Corp. It also contracted to pay Tucker some $75,000 a month to pay a staff to look after the $100 million worth of Government tools and surplus equipment in the plant. In return, Tucker promised...
...approval. But he had little time-unless WAA gave him another extension. There was little chance of that because Republican Senator Homer Ferguson, whose Michigan automakers regard Tucker as a wishful dreamer, had turned a probing eye on the whole deal. Ferguson said that he "assumed" the plant would revert to WAA if Tucker did not make good on July...