Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the home-town pottery plant closed down in 1927, little Scio, Ohio (it rhymes; pop. 1,450) began to die. When Lewis P. Reese, a rough-handed West Virginia pottery worker, scraped up $8,000 and bought the plant at a sheriff's sale one day in 1933, the town came to life again. Reese thought he knew how to save Scio; he was sure he could mass-produce teacups, saucers, plates, etc. for 5? apiece and compete with cheap Japanese chinaware...
...taken a good deal of running. Despite its fast growth, it is not yet making money, and two months ago it borrowed $200,000 from a bank, to get "an extra margin" of capital. "If we don't meet the payments," said Mrs. Boettiger, "we lose the plant and the newspaper." She doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house up for sale and plans to move into a smaller one. At week's end, old Tribune Reporter Boettiger was back in his old Chicago haunts, seeing about...
Architects, Wright believes, should concern themselves as much with human aspirations as with human needs. "Organic" architecture, he concludes in the FORUM, must have "the integrity, where the human spirit is concerned, of a tree or a plant. It is that character in the buildings shown here that should interest...
...inducements. By 1946, some of the company's officers could no longer resist a trip west to look over possible sites. When they found a likely one, the Chamber arranged for them to buy it. Upshot: last month ground was broken for an $8,000,000 radiator manufacturing plant that will employ 1,500 people...
Like his older brother, Benson had already put in his time working in the Rouge plant. As a Princeton undergraduate he worked summers, and later, when he left Princeton (without a degree), he was a grease monkey in the dynamometer division. He married an automobile man's daughter, Edith McNaughton (her father was salesmanager of G.M.'s Cadillac Division), and in 1941 he was made a director of Ford Motor Co. All last year, as a member of the policy committee, he has been learning Ford finance. He has also been chafing at so much tutelage. What...