Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inflammation of the bowels caused by eating peanuts. It occurred to Dr. Antoine Kolodny of the University of Illinois College of Medicine to make a post-mortem examination. The body of the elephant, which weighed some 3,000 pounds, had been transferred for destruction to a plant in Gary, Ind. Arming himself with a pair of rubber hip-boots and a ten-inch butcher knife, Dr. Kolodny, accompanied by two students, went to Gary. The carcass was opened, the ribs broken with an ax, the dissection begun. It was found that the elephant had an inflammation of the bowels...
...printing plant of Collier's Weekly, for many years located in Manhattan, is moving west to Springfield, Ohio. The editorial and business departments remain behind. Lower postage charges and an open shop are two of the chief factors prompting the movement. This is said to be the ninth magazine to leave Manhattan in 18 months. Other prominent magazines to move west were the Hearst publications, which went to Chicago and McCall's which went to Dayton. Westward the star of printing takes...
...vote of the Corporation below explains, will be used to build the new Business School plant across the Charles River. All of the buildings so built will be identified as the "George F. Baker Foundation". Inasmuch as $5,000,000 was the minimum quota for the Business School in the present drive; an attempt is being made by those in charge to have all of the other Business School gifts received in the drive to date shifted to the departments of Chemistry and Fine Arts...
...Royal S. Copeland, onetime chief health officer for New York City, introduced a bill to provide for a Bureau of Medical Research in the Department of the Interior. It includes an elaborate program for the purchase of 100 acres of land near Washington and a $1,000,000 research plant...
...common stock of his Company to the employes in trust. The trustees control the Company, under the injunction " to deliver the Company's products to persons requiring it, at actual cost, which shall be considered the lowest possible price consistent with the maintenance and extension of the Company's plant or plants and 'business and the payment of reasonable salaries and wages to all the employes of said Company, my object being to insure 'service' both to the purchasing public and to Labor on the basis of the golden rule given by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ...