Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic czar, Howe can grant permits for the importation of manufacturing machinery. He will be able to force Canadian branch plants of U.S. companies (there are 2,000 of them in Canada) to stop importing parts, begin making their own with Canadian raw materials. He will be able to shut any plant that does not cooperate. He will have the power to step up exploitation of Canadian resources. Gold mines, for example, will get a $7-an-ounce subsidy for every ounce they produce over their output in the twelve months ending last June 30. Coal production will be stimulated...
Canada, once an almost wholly agricultural country, has been growing industrially for years. There were 25,000 manufacturing companies in Canada in 1939; there are more than 30,000 now. This year, Canadian firms are spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...
...Netherlands' top plant pathologists arrived in Washington, D.C. last week on an important commercial mission. They were there to talk the Department of Agriculture out of limiting imports of Netherlands bulbs (1946 imports: $8,000,000). The department wanted to cut bulb shipments to "amounts needed for propagation." Its ostensible reason was the threat of importing contagious plant diseases along with the bulbs...
...because it competed with the more profitable blade business, added shaving cream to the line of products, followed up advertising with hard-hitting merchandising. Gillette's net income increased from $2,941,890 in 1938 to $10,501,448 last year. This year the company's main plant in South Boston is still working the wartime three shifts...
...housewives got-and promptly tried-free samples of "Glim," a super-sudsy detergent made by General Aniline & Film Corp. Within a few hours, tons of grease that had accumulated in sewage pipes over the years were cut loose and the town's small sewage plant was virtually buried in bubbles, which overflowed onto neighboring lawns. General Aniline cleaned up the mess with "Chat,' another detergent that makes no suds...