Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estate. But in Antioquia, industrial joint stock companies have achieved a fabulous development. Even the housemaids follow the stockmarket. The biggest investor in the Cia. Colombiana de Tabaco, the country's No. 2 enterprise, owns no more than 3% of the stock. When a new hotel or steel plant is launched, the stock issue is subscribed practically overnight. It is as though every Antioquian peso were motorized to rush into the breach at the first opportunity...
...classification as other wage and hour disputes, and as such can be settled most effectively by collective bargaining rather than by prolonged litigation with the courts. Workers in some industries are rather obviously entitled to pay for time which they spend readying themselves for work or going from the plant or mine entrance to the place of work. In other industries time thus consumed is negligible and no imposition on the worker...
...Under these conditions and with the reconstruction from the setbacks of the war barely begun the decision to hold the election at this time was indeed unfortunate. Certainly the American State Department should ultimately settle for nothing less than completely democratic processes in Poland, but democracy is a delicate plant and cannot be expected to thrive in the barren soil that is Poland today. If democracy is to be brought into Poland it must be cultivated step by step. The most obvious move in that direction is material aid in the Polish reconstruction and in the stabilization of the Polish...
...houses (TIME, Nov. 11, et seq.). Then, RFC had turned Lustron down flat on the grounds that Lustron was putting up too little of its own capital ($36,000), stood to make a 14,000% profit. Lustron also tried and failed to get the Government-owned Chrysler-Dodge plant in Chicago...
...Lustron made a deal with WAA to use part of the Curtiss-Wright plant at Columbus, Ohio. Then it went back to RFC and offered to invest $3.5 million of its own cash, along with another $6 million from private sources. RFC agreed to lend the $12.5 million...