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Word: plantes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland's reputation has always depended more on the achievements of its members than on its physical plant. On this basis, the Deacons have had a good deal to boast about since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Rests Its Case On Achievements, Sports | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...weeks ago, Provost Buck announced to a breathless Student Council the gory details of a new 4 tuition rise. But fortunately for the more sensitive members of that august body, Buck couched his $76 fee fattener among some noble new plans for improvements in the plant and teaching of Harvard College...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 3/16/1949 | See Source »

Mixed Feelings. Of many new houses near the park, the closest belongs to straggle-bearded Akira Yamamoto, 37, a sewing-machine merchant whose back stoop is only 80 feet from the shaft. During the war Yamamoto worked in a munitions plant ten miles away, while his wife and older children were in the country, but his parents lived in the target area and were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Report from Nagasaki | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...cotton mill. After talking local citizens into adding $80,000 of their own money to his, he bought the mill. During a real-estate boom, Love sold the mill's land and buildings at a small profit, then moved its machinery to a new $200,000 plant built by eager-beaver boosters in Burlington, N.C. There he branched out into rayon, then an infant industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Calculated Gamble | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: End of Tucker? | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

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