Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trick for which Miss Caulfield has a pretty talent). Veronica has to be coldhearted enough for both of them; but as it turns out, she is vulnerable, too. Both fall for an earnest, shabby oaf (well played by George Reeves) who dreams of modernizing his community with a power plant. Both help raise the money which will make his dream come true. And both plan to make off with it, love or no love...
Tickets at the Squire meat packing plant got a shot in the arm yesterday morning when 16 College and Radcliffe students joined their lines in support of the eight-week-old strike of the United Packinghouse Workers of America...
There's nothing like a feminine smile and a girlish yell to dress up a dreary picket line, as strikers at the Squires meat packing plant in East Cambridge will find out this morning...
Under this cozy arrangement, the base prices of cement were fixed at certain "basing point" plants across the country. Beyond the base price the buyer also paid freight costs from the nearest basing point plant. All cement plants in the U.S. thus charged the same price for cement laid down at any one job. The plants closer to the consumer than the basing point plant tacked on a "phantom freight" which was more than the shipping cost; the plants farther away charged a freight which was less (and took less profit...
What the FTC wanted, in effect, was an f.o.b. system such as automakers use, with consumers paying the cost of a product, plus the actual freight to the point of delivery. For many a consumer close to a plant, this would mean a price cut. Those far away might find prices boosted, at least as long as materials were scarce...