Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Associated Press story from Fort Worth, Tex. reported the death of one Wilton Rhodes Earle, 39, onetime accountant at the atomic bomb plant at Oak Ridge. Said the A.P., quoting an "autopsy surgeon": Earle had died of atomic radiation to which he was exposed at Oak Ridge...
Meanwhile, another radioactivity case came to a tragic but clear-cut end. Dorothy L. Burns, 30, last fall sued Westinghouse for $200,000, claiming that she had contracted radiation sickness in a war-job at Westinghouse's Bloomfield, NJ. plant. Her illness, marked by fibrous degeneration of both lungs and a slow wasting away, puzzled doctors. Last week Miss Burns died. Reported Medical Examiner Harrison S. Martland (who in the '20s discovered radium sickness among a group of women painting luminous watch dials): Miss Burns did not die of radiation sickness. Her illness was beryllium poisoning, caused...
Commuter's-Eye View. Some of the plants, like the efficiently elegant one recently completed by Johnson & Johnson (surgical dressings) in Cranford, N.J. (see cut), are far removed from the belching smokestacks that were once the hallmark of industry. Each week brings news of new factories that will change the economic shape of some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work...
Unforgivable Debt. The RFC bluntly rejected Henry Kaiser's plea that it write off $85 million of the $123 million it had loaned him during the war to build his Fontana (Calif.) steel plant. Kaiser had contended that the writeoff would be in line with the $162 million loss the Government took on the war surplus sale of its $200 million Geneva (Utah) plant. Said RFC: the situations were not at all similar. U.S. Steel bought Geneva - Fontana's competitor-through open bidding long after the plant was built. But Kaiser himself built, operated and reaped the wartime...
...Charge. Henry J. Kaiser joined the fray. As owner of the $123 million, Government-financed Fontana (Calif.) steel plant and part owner of Portsmouth Steel Corp., he was nominally on the side of the industry. But in a nationwide broadcast, Kaiser, to no one's surprise, joined the industry's critics. Said...