Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sensitive Plant. In Kalispell, Mont., Mrs. Delia M. McKinley, suing for divorce, complained that Mr. McKinley had 1) pulled up all her lilac bushes, 2) torn up her pansy bed, 3) staked a calf in her strawberry patch, 4) mowed the lawn "just to annoy...
...undergraduate boards that run the News had long yearned for a printing plant of their own. The cost was always too high. Since 1932, the editors have had their own Gothic quarters, the Briton Hadden Memorial Building,† but the printing has been done on contract, in a shop a mile and a half away. Now, in the "heelers' room," where young Yalemen compete for places on the board, the Daily News (circ. 3,000) has its own offset press and folder, with three new Vari-Typers down the hall. It can print more pictures and is boosting...
Spiritual Force. At the union's suggestion, the West Coast paper industry bargains as a unit once a year, has set up a regional union-industry joint relations board to settle grievances. But most are settled at the plant level. Only ten have reached the board since...
...secret of his belief that Yankee workers no longer earn their high wages. When he bought eleven Southern mills (TIME, May 27, 1946), he said he found that his Southern workers' productivity was one-third higher than that of his New England crews. One reason was that Southern plants could be run on three shifts; most New Englanders refused to work night shifts. "When you can't work your plant three shifts a day," said Little, "it isn't worth modernizing...
Sand & Snow. U.S. Army Ordnance had wanted such a power plant ever since maneuvers in Alaska proved that conventional liquid-cooled engines were impractical for such climates. It put Continental, the biggest maker of air-cooled engines for tanks in World War II, to work. Jack Reese claimed-and Army Ordnance backed him up-that the engine will operate efficiently in desert heat or Arctic cold, and weighs only one-third as much as liquid-cooled jobs of equivalent horsepower. Developed by Continental Engineers Carl F. Bachle and Edward A. Hulbert, the new engine is simple in design and requires...