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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says Jane's, which is authoritative though unofficial: "The Soviet government has taken over and put to good use German experimental establishments, factories, plant, equipment, designs and experimental prototypes . . . Virtually the whole of the Junkers plant has been reestablished in Russia. An experimental development section of the company is located . . . 100 miles to the north of Moscow, and its main production unit is at Kuibyshev [on the middle Volga] . . . Here, it is reported . . . large-scale production of an Ilyushin bomber is being undertaken...
Superintendent Thomas Ragland of the Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corp. plant at South Charleston, who had played host to Modarelli when he was trying to get "a feel" for the industrial section of Saga, beamed at the sound effects of whirring machines and the tripping of interrupter switches. "Precisely as they are heard in the plant," said...
...over the world, and sometimes I learn more from the student than he learns from me." Such a student came to Waksman in 1924 to work for his Ph.D.: a young (23) Frenchman named René Jules Dubos. Waksman turned Dubos loose on the activities of microbes in reducing plant fibers to humus...
When the new $44.4 million credit is drawn on, Henry Kaiser's various enterprises, according to his books, will owe the Government $186.6 million. He still owes $88.2 million on his Fontana, Calif, steel plant and $54 million on Permanente Metals, Willow Run and the Ironton (Utah) blast furnace. To date, Kaiser has paid off a total of $70.1 million on Government loans and credits, and he has paid another $41 million to the U.S. in rents and interest. Kaiser said he has also poured $108 million in earnings and private loans into improving and expanding his plants...
When Corn Products Refining Co. set out to build a new plant at Corpus Christi, Texas two years ago, it wanted to find some new solutions to the old problems which have always plagued the grain-processing industry-explosive dust and dangerous fumes. It gave the job to Cleveland's H. K. Ferguson Co., builder of the thermal diffusion unit* of the Oak Ridge atom bomb plant. Ferguson engineers decided that the best way to eliminate dangerous working conditions within enclosed spaces was to build a plant without walls...