Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During Von KleinSmid's era, U.S.C. had a crack football team which made the Rose Bowl nine times, a campus which expanded from five acres to 50, and a plant which grew from three to 22 buildings, costing $16 million. Said the committee tartly: "The university's future ... is more dependent upon the dignity, respect and morale of its faculty than it is upon buildings. . . ." The U.S.C. trustees would see what could be done...
...Reconstruction Finance Corp. lent $9,000,000 to Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., to build a $19,000,000 plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...
...from-gas plant, Carthage will use a variation of a method which Dobie Keith became familiar with during a visit to Germany in the thirties. With the Fischer-Tropsch method, the Germans made gasoline out of coal. But the gasoline was only 40-octane, and the method was too expensive for commercial use in this country. Keith worked out a similar method of making gasoline from natural gas, thinks he has made it commercially feasible. In brief, natural gas is burned with oxygen to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can then be reacted to produce liquid hydrocarbons, i.e., gasoline...
...test his method, Keith raised $1,250,000 from oilmen, built a pilot plant at Olean, N.Y. It produced only ten gallons a day. But this was enough to sell to RFC and the oil companies. Carthage will get Keith's patents royalty-free, but will pay his research firm $100,000 a year for engineering advice on running the plant...
...sickening period after he was laid off (from a turret lathe), when he pawned his tools, and pounded the pavements, while Susan's work in a bookstore supported them both. He remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only on their way to & from their jobs. And he remembers Susan's constant desire for a child, and his own constant fear of it, so long as they were so desperately hard up and insecure...