Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hunt did not end in the legislative halls. On the lookout for Communist saboteurs, troops patrolled Rio suburbs and Santos docks. Light tanks guarded the great São Paulo electric plant. Hoje, São Paulo's violent Communist sheet, was worked over by police, and masked toughies who had caught the linotype-smashing fever took on the sensational but anti-Communist tabloid A Hora...
...last week, the New York Times filled nearly two columns with a letter from Moscow. Signed by one Dmitry Shisheyev, chief engineer in a machine-tool plant, it replied, in good Union Square dialectic, to a Times survey comparing the hours spent by typical Russian and American workers in earning everything from a loaf of bread to a suit (TIME, Dec. 29). Shisheyev had "analyzed" the figures quoted in a Voice of America broadcast; in pooh-poohing them, he showed an uncommonly glib familiarity with U.S. university bulletins and labor statistics...
Thirty-six hundred boys bunked in a wartime bomber plant and commuted to conference sessions in a fleet of 60 buses. The basement of Cleveland's massive Public Auditorium housed 1,600 girls (a minor crisis developed when they found only one mirror to every ten young ladies). Twenty-five Methodist bishops turned out for the occasion, as well as a couple of hundred foreign delegates...
...great peacetime battle of production, Henry Kaiser got back some of the luster of his wartime fame. His Willow Run plant turned out 145,000 cars and he was able to brag in full-page ads that he was now "the world's fourth largest producer of automobiles." It was true in the sense that only General Motors, Ford and Chrysler topped Kaiser-Frazer. Actually, production of seven of the Big Three's individual divisions topped K-F's figure...
...intramural argument of the year was over steel: Was the 91 million tons of capacity enough to meet the needs of full employment? Steelmakers, haunted by fear of a recession and idle plants, stoutly said that it was. But the grey market in steel, which sold at double and triple the established price, said that it wasn't. So did many a manufacturer who bought a steel plant and went into the business to make sure he got what he needed. Toward year's end, the steelmakers hedged their arguments and started to spend some $2 billion...