Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...uncertain way through the states' already mixed-up divorce laws there was, in the bitter words of one justice, "no longer any divorce law in the U.S." In one wage-hour ruling-that workers must be paid for time spent getting ready to work and walking through the plant to their jobs ("regardless of contrary custom or contract")-they had opened a trap door under thousands of business firms. Congress had to rush to the rescue with legislation...
...Communists of the Long March in 1934-35. A highhanded but benevolent despot, he has also given his spare, dry, upland Chinghai province (pop. 1,500,000) some of China's best roads, extensive irrigation works and a spectacular reforestation program. Over 13 years he supervised the planting of millions of willow, poplar and acacia seedlings to shade the roads, check riverbank erosion, supply fuel. "Even when I was a little boy," he once explained, "I liked to plant trees. In Chinghai, trees mean greenery and water, life and abundance. I sought to persuade my kin and friends...
First Sale. Last week in Frankfurt the low comedy was taken seriously. On the block went the first Farben unit, the Kalle plant at Wiesbaden, reportedly valued at $6,000,000. It employs 2,200 and produces Cellophane, photographic papers and chemicals. The Military Government wanted to offer some 80% of the stock for sale to Germans, while 20% would be set aside for the foreigners who already owned an interest in Farben. The Military Government also announced that part of another great industrial empire, the Robert Bosch electrical equipment combine, was to be sold. It looked as if "something...
Good Guinness. Because currency restrictions make U.S. hops hard to get, Arthur Guinness Son & Co., Ltd., famed Irish brewers ("Guinness is good for you"), bought a Long Island City plant, their first in the U.S. In it, Guinness, which has been importing U.S. hops, started brewing stout of "the same flavor and quality as brewed in Ireland" for the U.S. market...
What had happened to the investors' $28 million? Court-appointed trustees were still trying to find out. So far they had found few assets-an engine plant at Syracuse which Tucker had bought, a handful of lathes in the Government-owned plant at Chicago where he had said he would make cars, and some 25 hand-built Tucker autos, some with motors lifted from the cars of other manufacturers. There was only about $100,000 cash on hand...