Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sloan asked Chief Engineer Charles Franklin Kettering why the diesel was so cumbersome. Boss Ket snapped back: because the engineers persist in making them so. Shortly after, Boss Ket went to work simplifying and lightening diesels. Into his experiments G.M. put $25,000,000, including the purchase of a plant for locomotives at La Grange...
Some of the letters were merely apple-polishing jobs. But others, like the letter of Thomas B. Anslow, 42, who won first prize (a Cadillac), had a ring as authentic as the clang of the drop-forge hammer he operates in Buick's Flint plant. Wrote Anslow, a veteran of 23 years: "A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines. . . . Pounding, pushing, squeezing white-hot steel. ... A forge . . . rattles the windows in buildings for blocks around. It is hot and dirty and it is noisy. It has a smell of heat...
Under the agreement, Chile would ship coal, iron and copper to Argentina. But, said other critics, after the new steel plant at Concepción is completed in 1949, Chile will have no coal to export, may even have to import coal from the U.S. to keep going. In the end, they were sure Argentina would get a stranglehold on Chile's economy...
...down Walcott's terms for a return match. At least there'd be an anguished outcry if Joe Louis fought anyone but Walcott. A reporter asked Louis: did he have enough money to retire? "Yeah." Then, with a grin: "I can always go back to the Ford plant. I'm on leave of absence...
...tariff on Canadian aluminum to 2? and allow Aluminium Ltd. of Canada to sell raw aluminum at 14? a pound, the U.S. base price. This was bad news for Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. and Reynolds Metals Co. Only last June, Reynolds shut down one plant and Kaiser canceled the opening of another to prevent overproduction. Now they were hastily attempting to reopen them...