Word: plantes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baby, and a laborer in loose jacket and black cloth coolie pants. Trim in an open-necked, short-sleeved white shirt, Chiang listened like a good ward boss to his visitors' problems. The businessman had a complaint about taxes; the laborer vehemently reported that though the rubber goods plant where he worked was well stocked with raw materials, the boss had decided to close down rather than sell his products at the new ceiling prices...
Newsmen trooped into the sprawling plant of Continental Motors Corp. in Detroit last week to see a highly touted "revolution." The revolution turned out to be a new, lightweight, air-cooled engine developed by Continental for Army Ordnance. As Continental's President Clarence ("Jack") Reese unveiled it, he predicted that the new engine would first revolutionize the building of motors for U.S. Army tanks and motor vehicles, then commercial trucks and buses, and that ultimately it would drive a cheaper, high-powered...
...pick me, Señora?" asked 39-year-old César Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
Phenol & Foxes. Sharp-eyed George Humphrey always seems to be looking ahead. Long before steelmen began worrying about exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals...
...Kaiser. Henry Kaiser took over another surplus war plant: the War Assets Administration leased the $22.8 million, 36-building aluminum mill at Newark, Ohio to Kaiser's Permanente Metals for ten years. Terms: 5% of the first year's sales, $125,000 a year minimum for the second, third and fourth years, and $250,000 minimum thereafter...