Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appropriating for TVA, Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge...
...Providing electric power for the world's largest individual aluminum plant...
Under the new law, the President can force any "plant, mine, or other facility" to give top priority to defense orders, no matter how large. If the Government thinks the prices too high, it can cut them to its estimate of "fair and just compensation." Even more important than this contest of prices and production, the President can order the steel industry to allocate unlimited amounts of its output to defense plants. Any company that balks is subject to Government seizure. Any individual who fails to comply faces a maximum penalty of three years in prison...
...Aerosporin, newly discovered by the research team of Dr. George Brownlee at Wellcome Laboratory, England, is: 1. A new fertilizes which hastens plant growth. 2. A new antibiotic which proved in tests many times more effective than streptomycin. 3. A new drug which helps keep pilots of supersonic planes from "blacking out." 4. The cohesive substance which keeps atomic particles together. 5. A hitherto-undetected element existing only in the stratosphere...
Around Manhattan's Title Guarantee & Trust Co., William Benjamin seemed to be a favored character. As head of a war plant (Metropolitan Machine Shops, Inc., maker of machine parts and auto jacks), he borrowed $99,970 from the bank, without very close questioning. When Benjamin later confessed to frauds totaling $493,000 (and went to Sing Sing), Title Guarantee expressed shock, but it also gave off embarrassed sighs of relief. Alone among Benjamin's big creditors, Title Guarantee had been repaid in full...