Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Magee slopped about the plant with his deadly liquor as though it were so much milk. Once, on an automobile trip, he asked O'Connor's 18-year-old son to hold a jug of it between his knees. O'Connor's customers were delighted with the sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
...showed little interest in anything else. They guessed that his knowledge of chemistry was self-taught-M.I.T. had no record of him. But he should have been familiar with perchloric acid's dangerous characteristics-he had worked as a chemist at Henry Kaiser's Fontana steel plant and for the Douglas Aircraft...
...getting the mules through had become an obsession with Daveron. Despite swollen rivers and poor grazing (the bush seemed to grow only spiked trees, barbedwire plant and fishhook vines), Daveron pushed on. Sometimes wild pigs stampeded the troop and then jaguars clawed the strays. Last month, tired, tattered, and torn, Daveron and his mules made the Amazon. Of the original 171, only one mule had been lost-by snakebite. Some of the 170 that pulled through Daveron sold to the territorial government; others (at $250 a head) went to rubber producers...
...raided established record-makers for executives with know-how, poured out $3,500,000 to turn a Bloomfield, N.J. war plant into one of the world's largest record factories (annual capacity: 40,000,000 records). Only one problem remained: distribution...