Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Goodyear has been operating a pilot assembly plant in Litchfield Park, Ariz, for a year, believes that 48,900 houses a year can be mass-produced at a cost of under $2,500 apiece, plus delivery charges. Like some 'other prefabricators, notably Bucky Fuller, Goodyear Board Chairman Paul W. Litchfield thinks that surplus war plants could be used to turn out his houses. But Wingfoot has made few houses to date, for the same reason that has delayed all building: lack of materials...
...members of the Botanical Museum were represented in the announcement, Hugh C. Cutler and Donovan S. Correll '39, both research fellows. Cutler will study the origin of the maize plant in South America, and Correll will investigate an American botanical species. Albert C. Smith, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, will engage in Botanical exploration of the Fiji Islands...
...mean wind and a press conference greeted the delegates at the Sperry entrance. Since they had yet to see the plant, they could offer no opinions. After they had seen it, they offered little more. The motorcade, with its two-cop escort, whirled off in the direction of Manhattan, stopping briefly to inspect the million-dollar estates of the late John D. Ryan and Nicholas Brady...
Biggest investment was the purchase (for $1,200,000) of a Government-built war plant which had turned out B-29 wings during the war, has been idle ever since. Scranton bought it from the War Assets Corp. and leased it (for $130,000 a year) to its old tenant, Detroit's Murray Corp., for the peacetime output of stoves, kitchen cabinets and sinks...
General Leslie Groves, Grand Panjandrum of military atomics, made a minor concession to the cause of science. The Oak Ridge Laboratory, he said last week, was working on an experimental plant for producing atomic power. It should be finished in a year...