Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in a suit filed in New Jersey's Federal Court, she told what she thought ailed her. In 1942, said Miss Burns, she had gone to work in Westinghouse's Bloomfield (N.J.) plant, and had been assigned to a laboratory job. Almost four years later, she learned she had been working on one of the minor processes in the development of the atomic bomb. The hot sheet metal she had been cutting into squares, she said, contained radioactive uranium...
...swapping something you have for something you want. We must supply capital goods . . . technical assistance and know-how to other nations to help them help themselves, and to strengthen their economies." (Westinghouse is now doing this by selling plans and know-how to China for a $35 million manufacturing plant...
...skullduggery. True, there had been a phone call to NHA from "a lawyer" who represented himself as acting for Tucker. The lawyer had asked NHA to hold up the Lustron deal. But the delay was routine. When the lawyer had called back and said "the deal was off," the plant had been ordered turned over to Lustron...
...Buying nearer to assembly operations; Ford's Fargo, N. Dak. plant will henceforth get batteries from Minneapolis instead of from Indianapolis. Savings in shipping charges...
This mail-order bookkeeping service was the brain child of Jack Hession, 36, who learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...