Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they named "Liberation," the retreating Communists set fire to the post office. Across the way, they reduced the telephone exchange (servicing 4,000 lines) to a pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families of 3,000 workers of their livelihood...
...Temporary Hardship." Ten miles outside of Tatung, a city of 80,000 that withstood a 45-day Communist siege, lie the Kouchuan coal mines and power plant-one of the biggest enterprises of its kind in North China. The Communists took Kouchuan last August, were driven out Oct. 31 after a mild skirmish. They left the same pattern of destruction as in Kalgan: machine shops ruined, foundries and lathes demolished, burned-out roundhouses full of burned-out locomotives, hand tools and hardware broken and scattered in the dust...
...eight months old and growing fast. Its founders (who almost lost their shirts and their $36,000 capital in the first 90 days) had 23,000 circulation in Italy, were flying 500 copies a day to Athens, lining up outlets all the way from Switzerland to Egypt. For their plant on the busy Corso Umberto, they had bought (for 7,000,000 lire, or $31,000) a modern rotary press...
...some $200 million had gone into G.M.'s inventories, which had swollen out of all proportion to production. Easy-to-get parts had piled up while G.M. waited for hard-to-get parts with which to make cars. Another $242 million had gone to reconvert and expand plant facilities. And G.M.'s stockholders had taken another big bite; dividends had totaled $70 million more than G.M. earned...
Only Natural. As to why a miller was making irons, there were several answers. One was that, as a result of its wartime production of $29 million worth of gunsights, torpedo directors and other military gadgets, General Mills found itself with a new million-dollar plant that needed something to keep it going...