Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many colleges throughout the country, Harvard entered the housing free-for-all late in the game. Six months after M.I.T. broke ground for their college-financed West gate project, Harvard was still tied down in complex arrangements with the city and federal government aimed at importing second-hand, defense plant dwellings for use on Cambridge sites. The negotiations paid off-200 families now live in the Jarvis Field and Business School developments-while 100 more will find lodging , though definitely not low-cost, in the recently acquired Brunswick Hotel. More than anything else, University Hall has counted on its allotment...
...expected to do this was a Kansas City coal man named Kenneth Aldred Spencer, president of the Spencer Chemical Co. He got Jayhawk on a lease with an option to buy for $20,000,000, two-thirds of the original cost of the plant...
...corporation has already contracted to turn about 40% of its capacity (50,000 tons a month) over to K-F. Under an agreement with Wheeling, the ingots will be rolled into body and fender sheets at its Steubenville plant, only 250 miles from Willow Run. The steel from Portsmouth will cost more than that from outside suppliers...
...steel deal, Kaiser hopes to end one of his prime headaches. Once promised steel by U.S. and National Steel, he has had little delivered so far. Fortnight ago he was forced to start shipping steel to Willow Run from his own plant at Fontana, Calif., an expensive procedure. Now he plans to ship only enough from Fontana for 15,000 cars, expects to be getting steel from Portsmouth by the time these are finished. This should give him plenty of time to put the deal through...
...They wanted us to build and operate a big basic chemical plant. I didn't know about operating such a plant, but they told us anyone who could operate an electric shovel, move 30 or 40 feet of overburden to get an 18-inch seam of coal, and make it pay, could operate anything...