Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time has U.S. Steel or any of its operating subsidiaries made a bid for the Government-owned coal mines in Oklahoma. Neither U.S. Steel Corp. nor any of its operating subsidiaries have any fabricating plant at Houston. Sheffield Steel' of Texas has a complete steel works with iron and coke producing facilities at Houston; the company is a subsidiary of the American Rolling Mill Co.-ED. plants along this 50-mile Ship Channel, and it is one of many such projects...
...bright. It looked like another great day for the war-fat Gulf port town of Texas City, Tex.-"The Port of Opportunity." Stores were busy, prosperous people "howdy'd" one another in the streets. Down along the waterfront, $125 million worth of oil refineries, tin smelters and chemical plants labored mightily to assure Texas City's future. Down there too was the only small blot on the day-the French freighter Grandcamp, loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer and docked some 700 ft. from the great Monsanto Chemical Co. plant, was afire...
...flung it 100 yards inland. Two light planes that had been circling over the harbor plummeted down together with 300-lb. chunks of ship's steel. Then, in a splitting series of explosions (one of which flipped a fire truck on top of the beached barge), the Monsanto plant and most of the rest of the waterfront blew...
Flame & Invisible Force. The next minutes were a vortex of sound, flame and rushing, invisible force. The bodies of the dock crowd, limbs and clothes torn off by the blast, were strewn for half a block. In the ruins of the Monsanto plant, buildings sagged slowly down on 800 workers. In adjacent refineries, gasoline and oil tanks shot up like rockets, walls fell, pipes curled up and writhed like snakes, and black and red fire licked greedily over the ground...
Amidone was developed by German chemists about 1941. It was brought to the U.S. by a team of scientists who learned of it while investigating a German chemical plant at war's end. In the past year, the new drug has been given intensive study at more than 100 U.S. institutions...