Word: planted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning last week when he got to the plant gates, he discovered that a quickie strike had been called, and that more than 300 structural steelworkers and machinists were refusing to go to work. Their reason: as long as there were 3,000 jobless in Omaha, the company shouldn't go and hire a foreigner. Stefan loitered uncomprehendingly outside the plant for some time before he discovered that he was what the fuss was all about...
...jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago graduate and ex-ranch hand...
...made the first of their international deals that now include licensing arrangements in England, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. The home office delivers the design, advertising and selling campaigns-and production know-how. Joyce's British partners, for example, after training at his Pasadena plant, managed to boost their own man-hour output by 50%. The result: Joyce footwear that sells in the U.S. for $2.95 to $10.95 sells for only a little more in Britain, which is about half the price of competing models of equal quality. By combining quality and economy, Joyce has built...
...deal with General Motors, and another $3,000,000 in contracts with seven other U.S. motormakers for a grand total of 4,800 trucks, buses and tractors. In addition, as soon as a formal peace can be signed with its Arab neighbors, Israel hoped to clinch the Ford plant in Haifa...
...shrewd old Henry Kaiser expanded his sprawling industrial empire by leasing three huge Government aluminum processing plants. Last week, for $36 million, Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. took title to the plants which had cost $90 million to build. The new properties: 1) a bauxite-processing plant in Baton Rouge with an annual capacity of 500,000,000 lbs. of alumina; 2) the Mead Aluminum Reduction Plant at Mead, Wash., which refines the Baton Rouge alumina, has an annual capacity of 216,000,000 lbs. of aluminum ingots; 3) the Trentwood Rolling Mill, at Trentwood, Wash., which fabricates Mead...