Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next the major points in dispute are discussed--the Injunction, the Closed Shop, the Non-Communist Affidavit, Jurisdictional Disputes, Secondary Boycotts etc. The history of the injunction is given, the reasons for the unions' opposition to it, the possible alternatives such as compulsory arbitration or plant seizure in the case of national emergencies are discussed...
...Andean Cochabamba the government is building a cracking plant to process crude oil to be piped up from the Oriente. At Sucre it is planning a refinery. Last week it was negotiating a $16 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan to complete a highway from Cochabamba to Santa Cruz...
Outside the Government's huge $7,500,000 synthetic rubber plant at Baton Rouge one day last week, a crowd of bigwigs gathered. They had come to watch while the Copolymer Corp.,† which operates the plant, switched to 100% production of "cold rubber." It was the first U.S. synthetic plant to make the changeover. Copolymer's President A. L. Freedlander thought his guests were witnessing a revolution...
Before the year is out. conversions at Government plants operated by Goodrich, Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber & General 200,000 tons, one-seventh of the nation's total consumption of rubber of all kinds. At last week's dedication of the Copolymer plant, rubber experts privately predicted that, within ten years, the U.S. would be using cold rubber almost entirely...
Badge of Shame. Jamaicans regard it as a badge of their island's industrial shame that cement must be imported from England. Rich in limestone and gypsum, Jamaica has no cement plant. Jamaica's governor, Sir John Huggins, turned for help to World Commerce Corp.'s Sir William Stephenson, who winters in Jamaica...