Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bows and headshakings is still something of a comic figure, his Japanese subjects now call him ochitsuite (poised-and-at-his-ease)-a high personal compliment. Hirohito's /ords are few, but well chosen and sometimes surprising. To union bosses at Nagasaki's big Mitsubishi heavy-industry plant, he said warningly, "Thank you for your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray...
...Augsburg aircraft plant, Messerschmitt last week was busy buying new machinery and adding to his original staff. The bustle reminded him of the wartime plane-building days. He is currently producing 40 prefabricated houses a month. "This is only the beginning," he said...
...setting the British sneezing record (the American record is probably held by a 13-year-old girl, Mary Margaret Cleer, who in 1936 sneezed for 57 days) was not helping Michael's recovery; they shipped him off to the country. His grandmother took him to a cold storage plant, where he sat in a room with the temperature at 18° below zero. When he came out, he was shivering, and sneezing...
...American entries alone provided dozens of provocative contrasts. From such hard-to-make and hard-to-take abstractions as David Smith's tortuous steel Cello Player (the work of a onetime war-plant welder), visitors could turn to such literary hardware as Mitzi Solomon's aluminum Family of Man Totem. Among the best of the relatively representational items were Alfeo Faggi's leggy, high-breasted Eva, Koren Der Harootian's Slave, Burr Miller's classic marble nude La Victoire, and William Steig's tiny, self-effacing Elderly...
...their New Britain, Conn, plant last week., appliance-makers Landers, Frary & Clark (Universal Appliances) were busy with a new vacuum cleaner which had one radical change from their old model-the price. Instead of retailing at $79.95, the new model sold...