Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Socialist Britain had been fully warned that Wallace would be speaking for himself alone. Wrote Denis W. Brogan, an acute observer of U.S. affairs: "Britain will be welcoming not the leader of a great mass movement, much less the leader of a great national party, but a distinguished plant geneticist, a former vice president, and the editor of ... a weekly review...
...calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with a message: "Entered plant O.K. Don't worry...
...genius of mass production. He created social problems which the U.S. is still trying to solve. For himself he built an industrial empire of coal mines, rubber plantations, iron mines, timberland, sawmills, hydroelectric works, companies in a dozen other nations. The empire's capital was the plant on the River Rouge where the stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated Henry Ford ruled the roost. At one time it was estimated that he was worth $2 billion. The bankers tried to horn in on the empire, but he repulsed them. He had a low opinion of all bankers-especially Eastern...
...unions tried to move in and he fought them. He assigned a hard-faced ex-sailor, Harry Bennett, to guard his empire. Heads were cracked. In 1932 four jobless marchers were killed outside the Rouge plant. He defied the New Deal. But in 1941, he capitulated. He signed a union-shop contract, something of which even Walter Reuther in his wildest moments had not dreamed...
...still the real boss, striding along the great assembly lines, sitting, birdlike and domineering, among the empire's reverent executives. Once again he cried out against the stupidity of war. He was an America Firster. But when the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor, he turned his Rouge plant into an arsenal. He put his company on a seven-day week...