Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three snowhouses. Each was about eight feet high, 10 ft. by 14 ft. in breadth. They used their parachutes for roofs, stripped the ailerons from their plane to hold them up. They used the C-47's plywood ventilator for a center beam (it broke), and the power plant for lighting. Air Force planes dropped them everything they could use-playing cards, whiskey, clothes, magazines, a Christmas dinner of roast turkey and pumpkin pie, a Christmas tree. Some even talked to their families in Greenland by radio...
...year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control in plants (in New York, a supervisor in a power plant kept tabs on his plant by means of a television screen...
Under the new system, the Buildings and Grounds Department will now have full charge of the branches of construction, maintenance, and police. Parkhurst's office will then have full responsibility for new building and alterations, and will also supervise the Harvard Medical School power plant...
Maintenance at the Business School and at Soldiers Field, however, will be under Clifford A. Foster, the new Assistant Superintendent. He will be able to consult directly with Vice-President Reynolds on development and maintenance of the plant there...
Around the Tree. Marsh Wall Products, Inc., the fourth and largest of the family's companies, was started in 1930, almost ended when a fire razed its plant and equipment in 1935. Starting up again from scratch, the brothers now have a business that employs more than 300, grossed $6,000,000 this year. They sold their 80% interest in it (Marsh friends and dealers and Masonite officials own the rest) in line with the trend among family enterprises to consolidate with bigger corporations, thus make assets more liquid to pay such things as inheritance taxes...