Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small Beginnings. Long before Krug or Forrestal, the oil industry had seen the revolution on the way and started to get ready. The Texas Co. has a 38% interest in Carthage Hydrogl, Inc., is now building a $20 million plant at Brownsville, Tex. to produce synthetic gasoline and oil daily from natural gas. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana will shortly begin construction of an $80 million synthetic plant in the Hugoton gas fields of Kansas. The two plants will produce 14,000 barrels of oil daily...
...book similar to the one published in 1906, is now being compiled, containing the history of the paper, a list of the editors, with their activities since graduation, and over 20 pictures showing the changes made in the plant and other subjects of interest. This volume will be ready in the latter part of April. A fiftieth anniversary dinner, at which a number of prominent officers and alumni of the University will speak, will be held in May combined with the regular annual spring dinner...
Capa was refused permission to shoot the antlike activity at the Stalingrad tractor plant (and later had 100 of his 4,000 negatives confiscated). They came home convinced that the Soviets, who keep the permanent foreign correspondents cooped up in Moscow, have the world's worst sense of public relations. "The Embassy people and the [regular] correspondents feel alone, feel cut off, they are island people in the midst of Russia, and it is no wonder that they become lonely and bitter," Steinbeck wrote. "But if it had been part of our job to report news as they must...
Tractor Deal. Harry Ferguson, Inc. found a new manufacturer for the tractors which Henry Ford II had stopped building for Inventor Ferguson (TIME, July 21). It was Sir John Black's Standard Motor plant at Coventry, England. Standard, already building 250 tractors a day for Ferguson's English company, will build another 250 a day for Harry Ferguson, Inc. to sell in the U.S. They will be powered with Continental motors imported from the U.S. (Ferguson found that would be cheaper than assembling the motor and British frames...
...Orlando, Fla., after two years of experimenting and selective breeding, the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine produced a sturdy strain of houseflies that could survive doses of DDT big enough to scare a beetle. Flies of the 35th generation were as robust as ever after absorbing twice the amount of DDT it takes to kill a normal fly. A fit few were still buzzing after a triple dose. While the bureau saw no danger of a race of superflies, there was still a possibility that such a race might evolve. Lately the bureau...