Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daingerfield, Tex. (pop. 1,700) the townsfolk were as excited as if a 10,000-barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed...
While they discussed ways & means, they got bad news. U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...
...Plant & a Paradox. The business of saving the world progressed slowly. Yet the consensus on the past week in Moscow...
...years later the country went to war. As Britain's people buckled down to their grim existence, they demanded more & more the comfort of seeing their imperial darling. "Why didn't you bring the Princess?" war-plant workers often shouted at the King and Queen. "We want Elizabeth...
...soft touch for a loan. Trade also handed out plenty-for hospitals, churches, parks, etc., blithely putting Mark down for half of each donation but always getting just his name on the cornerstones. Trade was the penny-watcher. Except for his habit of taking the waitresses from their plant restaurant for a daily ride in his surrey (later a Fiat), he ran everything with Scottish austerity. As a result of his insistence that all paper work be done on the backs of old envelopes, Smith Brothers kept no records for 65 years. Trade's pet project was the Prohibition...