Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fleet Street, rushed a mob of students. They poured pell mell into the rickety three-story building housing Tan (Dawn), a leftist morning newspaper edited by smart Columbia University-trained Zekeriya SertelVsiey wrecked the old flat-bed presses, the crowd swept over the Golden Horn to attack the plant of La Turquie, which had suddenly turned leftist when the British withdrew their "favors" at war's end and Soviet agents started buying up thousands of copies daily...
...proposal was thrashed out behind closed doors, while outside the sprawling Ford plant sullen strikers of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers Union stomped into their fourth month of picket duty. They were the barometer of the union's holding power. Strikers in need got no cash from the union; they had to join the picket line for four hours a day to get food chits ($3 weekly for a single man, $5 for a couple, $13 for each child...
...long will it take to develop an atomic power plant of 100,000-kilowatt capacity which could compete with coal selling...
...metal production, increased chemical manufacturing 233%. Said Howe with pride: "This unprecedented expansion . . . has resulted in manufacturing becoming the leading industry of the country . . , [and] on a production rather than an assembly basis." Turning to peacetime production, he pointed out that the Government had spent $720 million on land, plants and equipment during the war, three-quarters of it on facilities wholly owned by the Crown. At least two-thirds of this was suitable "for good use in peacetime," and "satisfactory progress" was being made in conversion. At the same time private industry, which spent half a billion dollars...
...Mixmaster. Planemaker Donald Douglas' Santa Monica plant was also abustle. The U.S. Army was ready to take the wraps off its sleek but weird-looking new light bomber, the XB-42 (see cut). What gave it the weird look were two propellers, rotating in opposite directions, behind the tail. What made it important to Douglas was that it is the military prototype of his DC-8 (the Skybus), his chief hope for a profitable postwar future. The XB-42 (facetiously dubbed the "Mix-master") is in the 4Oo-m.p.h. class. The DC-8 will be slower, cruising...