Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel-hungry West Coast, the question of the year has been: Who will buy and operate the Government-owned $190,000,000 Geneva steel plant? Last week, in a room in one of Washington's dismal buildings, the West got a partial answer. Seven bids for the plant were opened by the War Assets Administration...
...producers. But U.S. Steel added a slight "if" to its bid: there would have to be reductions in Western rail rates on steel. Said Big Steel: "Any bidder on Geneva Steel sees a need for reduction in freight rates from Geneva to the Coast. The economic future of the plant rests on these reductions...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., second best bidder, proposed to lease the plant with an option to buy, pay the Government rent of $2 for every ton of steel manufactured. Colorado Fuel also proposed to spend up to $47 million for added facilities, pay not less than $80,000,000 if the purchase option is exercised...
Alfred Wiley was back at work in a diesel locomotive plant when he heard the fearful news. Frantically he borrowed a car, raced 28 miles to Naperville. First he went to the bloody emergency stations and a hospital teeming with injured. They weren't there. Then he went to Naperville's three mortuaries. Nothing at the first or second. At the third he found the bodies of his wife and two children...
...much better off. The auto industry may go on a three-day week. Ford had already laid off more than 45,000 men. General Motors Corp., after scouting feverishly, found enough coal to keep open its big foundry at Saginaw, Mich, for another five days. If the Saginaw plant shuts down, all Chevrolet production in the Flint-Detroit area (about 38,000 workers) would stop within a week for lack of castings. Iron-foundrymen, supplying parts for autos, farm implements, housing and a long list of other scarce products, saw widespread closings only a few days off. And when they...