Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scores of visitors," McNiff said, "have come here from other universities to study the facilities. Almost all of them have been greatly impressed by the utility of our plant...
Cambridge is of course sorry to lose the big Lever executive offices and research laboratories which, together, furnished 1300 jobs. But the firm's manufacturing plant of 1500 workers will stay right on in Cambridge and even expand itself somewhat. Moreover, it looks as if the Lever offices and Laboratories won't be idle for long...
...augmented his permanent staff in the Studebaker plant from 28 to 39, talked each design over with engineers to see if it was feasible. From hundreds of tentative designs Loewy pulled a curve here, a hood there, a fender sweep yonder, then "mocked up" about a dozen experimental models in clay, one-quarter size, and worked on them. Says Studebaker's President Harold S. Vance: "I have seen Loewy shake his head in disapproval, then take out a knife and with one sweep correct the clay model to perfection...
...communications equipment, 18 diesel locomotives, 30 passenger cars, $2,250,000 worth of switch stands, signals and rails. She plans to set up modern, automatic telephone systems in 14 towns and cities, build six radio stations. Textile mills at Behshahr and Shahi will be renovated; Teheran's brick plant will be mechanized and three small cement plants (capacity: 200 tons daily) are proposed. Not till a network of small plants for building materials and consumer goods is well established, does O.C.I, recommend hydroelectric plants on the northern slopes of the Elborz mountains, national reforestation projects, and irrigation programs...
Lotion-maker Andrew Jergens, who relentlessly advertised the charm of soft hands, was no soft touch for labor unions. Though the A.F.L. Cosmetic Workers were certified in 1941 as bargaining agent for Jergens' 150 employees in his Burbank, Calif, plant, Jergens refused to bargain even after the National War Labor Board ordered...