Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's Prime Minister King will sit in on the talks. But Attlee's chief adviser will be Sir John Anderson, chief of Britain's atomic-research committee. Most of the other aides will be scientists from the staff of an atomic-research plant which the British plan to build at the Didcot-Harwell airport near Oxford...
Clement Attlee said last week that the British plant will spend as much time on looking for peaceful uses of atomic energy as on The Bomb. He will try to sell Harry Truman on the same idea...
...workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...
...atom-jumpy as most of the rest of mankind, Dr. Chauncey G. Suits of General Electric last week jumped to a conclusion. When Dr. Suits heard that some mysterious radioactivity was affecting photographic film at an Eastman Kodak plant, he mused out loud. Eastman, he told newsmen, was probably getting a drizzle of uneasy isotopes from the atomic bombs exploded in New Mexico or Japan. He was later proved not quite right-but not quite wrong enough for comfort...
Fledgling. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. will test its wings in a new market - consumer goods. In its $6 million fighter and bombers parts plant at Nashville, Consolidated will go into production of gas and electric ranges and farm equipment...