Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Demand is so great, said Fox, that Vacuum has had to allocate shipments and is thinking of setting up a California plant. The shortage temporarily takes some of the bloom off the Crosby deal. But Vacuum hopes to step up output enough to fill the new orders Crosby will bring in. And in the scramble for the new market, Vacuum figures that Crosby is just the Pied Piper needed to lure customers away from the old brand names...
This is not all altruism: there is no union at Nellie's, despite the determined efforts of Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union to organize the plant. Nellie has made sure that her employees see no need to join...
...great day for Inventor Harry Ferguson. Less than 15 months after Henry Ford II had stopped producing Ferguson tractors, Irish-born Harry Ferguson stepped into his first tractor to drive it out of his new Detroit plant. He had something to crow about...
Built in a record-breaking 116 days, the plant is airy and bright, and boasts many a trick to cut production costs. Example: tractors are lifted from one steel platform to another-so workers can walk around the tractor and do several assembly jobs-instead of being pulled along a continuous assembly line. Ferguson expects to turn out 100 tractors a day within two months, 500 when his production line hits its stride. List price: $1,470, more than $200 higher than Ford tractors...
Texas Payoff. After nearly 18 months of negotiations, Monsanto Chemical Co. and the Oil Insurance Association of Chicago finally reached an agreement on the company's claims for its plant & equipment losses in the great Texas City explosion (TIME, April 28, 1947). Total indemnity: $17,312,000, the biggest single insurance payment in history, according to Monsanto...