Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry used the letterhead of a reputable firm which employed him, represented on it to the War Department that he had a company and plant equipped to turn out 4.2-in. mortar shells. This company, the Erie Basin Metal Products Inc., did not then actually exist. But soon after Pearl Harbor the War Department gave Dr. Garsson's nonmachined firm a whopping order for shells. Meantime Henry Garsson had found two men-Allen B. Gellman and Joseph Weiss of Chicago-who had factories and machines but no war contracts...
...Banker. John Wesley Snyder, the banker, was RFC loan administrator in St. Louis, where he applied himself to becoming a better banker and a more learned man. He got his reward in 1940 when Jesse Jones called him to Washington to become executive vice president of the Defense Plant Corp. He left after a row with Jones, went back to St. Louis and the vice presidency of the First National Bank. Then one day his friend Harry Truman telephoned him that Franklin Roosevelt had just died. "John," said a shaky Harry Truman, "you'll have to come up here...
...commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
Heads Up. On a blistering morning last month, a small army of Tudeh pickets deployed at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s plant in Abadan on the Persian Gulf, and paralyzed one of the world's biggest refineries, chief source of the British Navy's fuel. Their Communist-trained leader, Najafi, had just given officials a 16-point ultimatum asking better pay, housing, transportation and hospitalization for the company's 70,000 workers (about half of Iran's industrial labor). When the company refused to talk, the pickets beat up would-be strikebreakers, confiscated company...
Cards Down. The Abadan strike was not an isolated instance of Russian use of native grievances against the British. At the Kirkuk oil plant, Moscow-trained leaders had presented demands similar to Najafi's; when officials agreed, the leaders simply upped their demands...