Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blocking of driveways to the plant's parking lots...
...good example of what has happened is the Bayerische Motorenwerke, whose automobiles used to be regarded with the same awe in prewar Germany as the Stutz Bearcat in the U.S. of the '20s. Not a single one of the plant's buildings escaped bomb damage; 95% of its remaining equipment was dismantled. "It was all earmarked for India," related Plant Manager Kurt Donath, "but then India was divided into two nations which apparently weren't on the best of terms. Anyway, the representative of one part came here and took all the good machines. Later the representative...
Britain was planning to plow back 20% of her gross income each year for the next four years into improving her production plant. Next to the U.S., Britain was the West's biggest Santa Claus. While taking ECA dollars with one hand, she was giving to Marshall aid countries with the other $312 million (in sterling) to cover their expected trading deficit with Britain...
Small (5 ft. 3 in.) and expensively dressed, "Miz Patterson" (as her staff calls her) keeps a purposeful brown eye on everything from editorial cartoons to finishing touches on Newsday's new plant in Garden City, L.I. She works in her small office off the city room from 10:30 a.m. to cocktail time. From the vast Guggenheim chateau at Port Washington or their bandbox house in Manhattan, her deceptively lazy drawl often calls pink-cheeked Managing Editor Alan Hathway, a Daily News alumnus, at any hour of the night...
...July and August because of workers' vacations). In 1948's first half, the French industry had exported 57% of its total passenger-car production and 14% of all commercial cars, to ring up a whopping $144 million in foreign sales. In September, France's nationalized Renault plant had more U.S. orders (3,200) than it could fill (it shipped 1,500), hoped to catch up by next April, when its output (now 150 cars a day) should hit 300. Peugeot, privately owned, is now exporting 50 cars a month of its $1,595 "202" model...