Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight Ho and Vo sent conciliatory letters to several French officials, suggesting a renewal of negotiations. But while General Louis Morlière, the commander at Hanoi, was reading his letter, a bomb disabled the power plant. Simultaneously the French hospital was attacked, not only by Vietnamese from outside but by helpful comrades who had smuggled themselves in as patients. Said Ho: "The battle will be long and difficult...
...life is. But growth in nature is complicated. Within a growing cell are hundreds, probably thousands of chemical compounds, their molecules weaving in & out, exchanging atoms and energy. Like a nation, the cell imports (absorbs), exports (excretes), and is influenced by its environment: the innumerable chemical substances in the plant or animal juices outside its frontiers...
...Steel's offer was too good to resist. Stockholders would cash in on Consolidated's lush wartime operations, not have to risk peacetime competition. Big Steel would get a thriving company (with a $35 million backlog) and a fabricator for the vast production of its Geneva plant. Steelmen gossiped that Big Steel, impressed by the way Roach had pulled Consolidated off the rocks, intended to get him too. But Roach was mum about that...
...million South Chicago plant, second in size to Geneva among Government-owned steel plants built in wartime, was sold by the War Assets Administration last week to Republic Steel Corp. Republic, which had run the plant during the war, paid $35 million. Of this, only $5 million was in cash. The rest will be paid in installments, $1.5 million a year for 20 years...
...Violence. Buchsbaum, who thought all labor leaders were racketeers, was first impressed when union president Samuel Laderman prevented violence when strikebreakers drove a car through pickets. He was further impressed when a friend whose plant Laderman had unionized told him "that Sam was a real human being. He liked opera. He disliked fights...