Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When police entered the plant, they were met with a barrage of bottle bombs containing acid, and ball bearings flung by slingshots. The acid fumes temporarily blinded 113 police, but only enraged the rest. Swinging rifle butts, they drove the strikers into the streets. In three hours it was all over. At least 450 people had been injured, and 50 arrested. Said one of Moch s tight-lipped men: "We wouldn't have been nearly so tough if they hadn't tried to blind us." But, for all the fury, nobody was killed...
...last vestige of capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things...
...best newspaper in the U.S. rarely uses up space to talk about itself. Recently the New York Times took two-thirds of a column to report how the American press is spending over $50 million on plant expansion. But the Times spared only two lines to tell about the biggest project of all, its own $6,000,000 rebuilding...
Under Luckman, Lever Bros, productivity has increased over 10%. Luckman gives much of the credit to suggestions from the workers themselves, under the worker-management "joint plant committees" he set up with his unions. Luckman himself is behind such morale-boosting devices as meals at cost (average price 37?), liberalized vacations (up to three weeks for ten years' service), insurance and pension systems, abolition of time-clock-punching for salaried workers...
Atomic Power. General Electric Co. announced that it will build an experimental atomic power plant to be completed in two to five years. In the plant G.E. hopes to use heat from atomic fission to run electric generating equipment. The builder: the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which G.E. operates for the Atomic Energy Commission. The place: a secret...