Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists feel? Mijnheer van der Meulen was regretful. "I would like to be helpful," he said; "we used to have some Communists in the plant. But now we have only one left, and I'm afraid you cannot meet him. We've given him some time off. You see, this week he celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company...
Central Europeans are fond of making comparisons between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. One goes like this: a delegation of U.S. trade unionists visiting Moscow is taken to a huge factory. One car stands outside the building. An American asks: "Whose is this plant?" "It belongs to the workers." "And whose is this car?" "The car belongs to the director." Later on, some Russian unionists return the visit. Their American colleagues take them to Detroit. They stop before a huge factory building where several thousand cars are lined up. A Russian asks: "Whose factory is this?" "It is Ford...
...famed "red house on R Street," where high officials were wined and duped, Monroe sued for $1,000,000. So Pearson got a young mutual friend to get better acquainted with Monroe. "I don't put servants in people's houses," explains Pearson, "or plant people around town. But in this case I was fighting for a million bucks." The young man dug up enough dirt to put Monroe in jail-and the libel suit was dismissed...
...first press conference Bennett said he did not feel at all "squeezed" by big business. He cagily avoided committing himself on prices, wage increases and labor unions. But he let it be known that he gets along with his help. Said he: "The man who sweeps out the plant still calls me Wallace...
...elder statesman of U.S. industry last week took a look into 1949-and blinked his eyes at the rosy glow. The reason for the glow, thought General Motors' Afired P. Sloan Jr., was the continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...