Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shvernik's successor as trade-union boss, and perhaps as Vice President of the Soviet Union, is Vasili Vasilevich Kuznetsov, who is even more cosmopolitan than Shvernik-he was educated at Carnegie Tech and worked in a U.S. Ford plant. When he returned to Russia, he reported so enthusiastically about his life & times in the U.S. that friends kept snapping: "Well, if you liked it so much there, why don't you go back?" Conforming to Peter's Western ideal, he is clean-shaven...
...This is the end of Blakesburg!" shrieked the school principal. "It is the end of Blake County, our State and our Republic! But I shall take the flag of this Republic with me and plant it in the Glory Land where it will bloom forever and forever...
...Calship, already owned a controlling interest in Hendy. They decided it was time to own it all. So they bought out the 25% interest of Hendy President Charles E. Moore, who had other business interests and no taste for the strike which had shut Hendy's San Francisco plant. As the new president of Hendy, McCone took on the job of settling the strike...
...Navy contract changed their minds. Before the war was over, Hendy had: 1) produced $225,000,000 worth of equipment (including engines for one-third of the Liberty ship fleet); 2) expanded to a 55-acre plant employing at its war peak 7,500 workers. Hendy's most spectacular achievement: when the Navy needed 252 rocket launchers in a hurry for the invasion of Kwajalein, Hendy produced them in 176 hours...
...machinery business since 1860, and McCone himself spent 15 years working for Consolidated Steel Corp. He left in J937 to join the Six Companies. During the war, he normally put in seven 15-hour days a week running Calship along with Bechtel-McCone's B-29 outfitting plant in Birmingham, Ala. His tough formula: set production goals higher than anyone thought could be met, then make sure they were...