Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berlin was not intimidated. As if carried forward by the momentum of resistance, power plant workers staged the first labor revolt against the Russians in Berlin since the occupation began. Trouble had started, before the elections, in the main administration offices of huge Bewag (Berliner Elektrizitätswerke A.G.). The Russians and their stooges, trying to destroy Bewag's predominantly non-Communist works council, had arrested six men and stationed police and plainclothesmen in the building. At a noisy, protest meeting, 3,000 Germans decided on a walkout unless their men were freed and the cops removed. Jumping...
...rule, the people do not complain of dictatorship but of corruption in the government. Since Franco and his cabinet are not regarded as venal, there is far less complaint against them than against the bureaucracy. A small factory owner complained: "To add a wing to my plant, or to get an import license for a small quantity of raw materials, I know I will have to bribe about six people. So only the rich can afford to expand...
Smaller Profits. This argument got nowhere with Harvard Professor Seymour Harris, an economist who has usually taken the New Deal line. He thought that business profits were too high. And he worried, over the "overinvestment" in new plants. Said Harris: "Obviously, we are doing too much with our limited resources. Hence the pressure on prices." The fact that management was spending so much had helped cause a scramble for materials, and had driven up prices. The plant expansion, he thought, was an "inflationary factor of great importance...
Autos. Henry Kaiser & Joe Frazer, who have been building cars at Willow Run under a lease with options to run for 20 years, made a deal with the War Assets Administration to buy the plant. They will get Willow Run for $15,100,000, about 35% of cost. Kaiser-Frazer will pay for the plant in 20 yearly installments...
...lighting has on the students who work under it is pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause fatigue and a loss of efficiency...