Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demonstration. In Winnipeg, Gordon Lillyman lost a finger in a candy-rolling machine, was showing the plant physician how it happened, when he lost another...
...interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...
...straight-from-the-shoulder" explanation: "Since engine deliveries are not keeping pace with schedules, we are in the process of reducing personnel to conform to the delivery of engines." Last week, in what appeared to be an attempt to remedy the shortage, K-F leased part of the Detroit plant of Continental Motors Corp., which had been supplying its engines. Henceforth, said K-F, it would make most of its own engines, pay Continental...
...darkly, were deliberately keeping up steel prices just to keep the West in its industrial short pants. But last week, Kaiser was in a peculiar, and uncomfortable position. He had become the chief opponent to a cut in the price of steel from U.S. Steel's Geneva (Utah) plant...
...trouble started when Big Steel madea deal to buy Los Angeles Consolidated Steel Corp. (TIME, Dec. 30). Kaiser complained that this was a rabbit punch to his own Fontana steel plant, which supplied Consolidated. Presumably, Consolidated would now buy from its new owner, Big Steel. About a month ago, Kaiser again felt the hot breath of Big Steel on his neck. Through a dicker with four western railroads, Big Steel had won a $4-40-a-ton reduction in the freight rate on steel shipped from Geneva to the coast...