Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chunk of the $300-million-a-year casino business. In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic on the dance floor...
Then Kaiser-Frazer ran full-page ads announcing that its cars would soon be on display, although actual car production is months away. Front-page newspaper stories about Kaiser-Frazer's new labor contract brought more publicity. Plans to lease a West Coast plant leaked out. Result: Kaiser-Frazer stock shot up from 15 to 24¼. At the new high price at which the stock is now selling, the new stock issue would bring the corporation over...
...weightiest brickbat had been the charge that Alcoa had blocked the disposal of surplus Government aluminum plants. Alcoa had refused, said SPAdministrator W. Stuart Symington, to license its patents on its process of converting low-grade bauxite into alumina (which is in turn smelted down to aluminum). This had blocked SPA's deal to lease the Hurricane Creek plant (which operates on low-grade bauxite) and Jones Mills aluminum plant to the Reynolds Metals Co. (TIME, Dec. 31). Alcoa's frail, grey-haired vice president, I. W. Wilson, had indignantly denied the charges. He did not stop there...
What will happen to the flying boat now, nobody knows. RFC, which owns both the plane and the plant it was built in, is anxious to get it away from Culver City. It has already offered the Howard Hughes plant for sale as soon as the plane is moved. But Hughes has shown no signs of moving the plane until RFC agrees to his terms. It may have to eventually-and finance the flights as well-if it ever expects to see what it got for all that money...
...ever heard. There are humorous dozens of cracker-barrel stories. There are shrewd estimates of hundreds of obscure people, cowhands, politicians, maiden aunts, Indians, legalites, buffalo hunters, dirt farmers. There is a bloated recapitulation of human knowledge (all set down as revelation), from casual botanical observations ("a three-leaf plant, like the poison Oak, is usually poisonous [but] a five-leaf plant like ... the Virginia Creeper is never poisonous") to startling historical discoveries (Egypt's "pyramids were constructed in order to satisfy groups and blocks...