Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
Notre Dame's football coach-every schoolboy knows his name is Frank Leahy-began the 1946 season by overcoming a serious handicap: a single pair of eyes, operating at ground level, could not possibly watch the whole vast Notre Dame processing plant. So Leahy (rhymes with "may he") built a tower, 30 feet high and bristling with loudspeakers, smack in the middle of Notre Dame's three-gridiron practice field. From the tower he looks down on an operation that is as carefully calculated, as extremely complicated as the Studebaker assembly line in nearby South Bend...
...large it shows that people like their homes, their jobs, the companies they work for. We're doing it the easy way. We tell it in the guy's own words. Why, one man actually told our reporter, 'Every time the whistle blows at the Bayway plant, I get down on my knees and thank God. for the Standard Oil Company...
...likely to be about seven shares of Convair for six of Lockheed. On its part, AVCO is expected to trade its Convair stock (26%) for Convair's non-aviation interests, including ACF-Brill Motors Co. and its subsidiary, Hall-Scott Motors, and Consolidated's general manufacturing plant at Nashville. In short, Convair's stockholders would get a piece of Lockheed, and AVCO would get out of the planemaking business entirely. It had plenty of other irons in plenty of other fires...
...could swallow both its parent, ATCO, and AMCO. By then V.E. thought that AVCO could start expanding again. With war in the offing, he had his eye on Consolidated Aircraft Corp. The way he got it was characteristic. Washington didn't like the idea of a key war plant being run from a skyscraper 3,000 miles away. So V.E. simply had one of his small planemaking subsidiaries, Vultee Aircraft Inc., buy Consolidated. (One planemaker described Vultee's designs on Consolidated as "like a flea going up an elephant's leg with lust in its eye.") Under...