Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilted Flour. General Mills' plant in Buffalo, world's largest flour milling plant, shut down because of a slump in demand, was scheduled to resume this week at only 50% of capacity. The slump, which has slowed many other mills, was blamed on 1) Government red tape, which has slowed up export licenses, and 2) high prices...
Louis Golden finally sold it, he told the committee, for $315 to $325 a ton, to the Holland Furnace Co. of Holland, Mich., only four hours' drive from K-F's Willow Run plant. The constant selling and reselling of the same steel sometimes gets very confusing, Golden confessed. Said he: "I recall a gentleman came up to the office and asked us to come out and inspect some steel, and we needed that type, and we went out to our own warehouse and looked at our own steel...
Since war's end, no one had known what to do with Basic Magnesium, the world's biggest magnesium plant. Built in 1941 in the desert in Nevada between Boulder City and Las Vegas, Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
Some 20% of the plant's space is already rented by 38 lessees, chiefly for storage. Nevada thinks the plant could provide the foundation for big scale electro-chemical and electro-metallurgical manufacturing, e.g,, anything from dynamite to paint. At week's end, Nevada's Senator Patrick A. McCarran was trying to interest Du Pont and Alcoa...
Koppers Cops. Pittsburgh's Koppers Co., Inc. got a Government contract to build a $4,413,250 plant to make oil from coal near Louisiana, Mo. It was the fourth Government-sponsored synthetic oil plant authorized since 1944 (the others : an earlier oil-from-coal plant at Louisiana, Mo.; an oil-from-shale plant at Rifle, Colo., and a fuel-from-farm-products plant at Peoria...