Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Impotent Magic. Inside the Town Hall, company, union and city representatives bickered before 200 listeners. The thorniest issues: Yale & Towne's insistence on a return to the open shop; its refusal to offer any increase except one based on overtime. The 77-year-old Stamford plant had accepted a wartime maintenance of membership contract under protest. Now, labor leaders charged, the company was trying to "bust the union." (Rather than recognize a union, Yale & Towne closed its Detroit plant after a prolonged sit-down strike...
...Eden," and "A Naturalist in Cuba," the latter concluded in 1945, contain little of the dry matter of zoology, though omitting nothing that a good naturalist could gather. His recent "Naturalist in Cuba," selections from which were printed in the Atlantic Monthly, discussed not only the animal, insect, and plant life of the region, but its geology, history, sociology, its people and their food as well...
...done some overlooking himself. On July 1 he gave the auto industry the go-ahead to make cars. Same day, Ford Motor Co. rolled its first car out of the Rouge plant. A slow trickle of cars, flatirons, vacuum sweepers began. General Motors' Moraine City plant, which had been making 6-29 propellers, pushed out its first refrigerators. WPB was still wondering how much reconversion would be permitted before V-J day when the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Next week, the armed services sent 30,000 telegrams, canceling the bulk of war contracts. For industry, the war was finally...
...Plant before Design. In the Oak Ridge plant, 6,000 centrifugal pumps were needed which would send a viciously corrosive gas through pipes. There was no time to design such a pump, then tool up a factory to produce it. So Allis-Chalmers took on the job of building the factory first, tooling it up and training the workers, then waiting for the pump to be designed...
...factory was idle for six months. But when the pump was finally designed, Allis-Chalmers had its plant so well planned that it turned out all the pumps needed within ten months...