Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tool" lost-by 61 votes. But that did not settle the matter. The Legion's lease ran until April 1, and the town council, which had leased the Town Hall to the Legion, was up for election before then. Meantime, the issue of a municipally owned light plant arose, and Sioux Center's high school team reached the semifinals in the state basketball tournament. In the excitement, the antimovie forces failed to line up a slate for the council election...
...assume today that the basic struggle is between workers and employers, between labor and capital is to make a most egregious error...It is between the industrial plant and society that there is the greatest potential conflict...An expanding economy, increased productivity, and widespread and full distribution of goods are essential if we are to raise the real income of our people to levels hitherto undreamed . . . Communism was not conceived as an answer to this problem. Communism is essentially a political idea, not a scientific blueprint for a machine...
...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
Except for 25,000 tons of structural steel framework (which were thoroughly coated with bright aluminum paint), almost the whole plant is made of aluminum -three miles of wall paneling, 2,000,000 square feet of roof sheeting, 500,000 square feet of window sash, 1,340 miles of wiring, 98 miles of conduit and 6,800 lighting fixtures, all surrounded by the longest aluminum fence (four miles) ever made. Even the 112 workers' homes outside the fence are built of aluminum...
Alcoa says that its own product was used in the new plant only where tests proved it to have definite advantages over other materials. In the case of aluminum v. steel, one disadvantage is higher cost. But Alcoa claims that, because it is easier to erect (it is much lighter) and cheaper to maintain (it is much more resistant to rust), it is worth the difference...