Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does pierce it. "Shame on those who brought this Fall and Doheny case to a miserable close; shame on those who forgot their oaths of allegiance to their country; and shame on those who have forgotten and who have betrayed their country." Perhaps, Attorney Hogan* would have liked to plant his fist in Mr. Heflin's white waistcoat; perhaps, Messrs. Fall and Doheny would have liked to have sued him for libel. But they did not. Mr. Heflin is a Senator, and Senators are public servants, whose words know...
...Commerce had worked over the tables of state taxes. Last week he stated dour facts. In Ohio, Carnegie Steel Co. (subsidiary of U. S. Steel) paid 24 different taxes last year. Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. spent more on taxes than on dividends. International Harvester Co., needing a new plant site, studied Ohio taxes, and picked Fort Wayne, Ind., just over the border. U. S. Steel Corp. last year spent $25,000,000 in Pennsylvania, $20,000,000 in the Indiana-Illinois district; and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. built in Michigan; American Rolling Mill Co., in Kentucky. "There has not been...
...University which encourages entrance in February. By this arrangement a large number of students can enroll in February and graduate two years later at mid-years. This plan involves a repetition of the courses offered in September but has nevertheless proved very satisfactory. "It increases the capacity of our plant 50 per cent," remarked a Business School official regarding the mid-year admission plan some time ago, "and yet it maintains 100 per cent. efficiency...
Heretofore the biochemists have considered that all the vitamins are derived from plants, although it is well-known that ultraviolet light can energize cholesterol and phytosterol (cholesterol is a constituent of animal cells, phytosterol, of plant cells) to behave like Vitamin D as a rickets-preventive. It might be that the ultraviolet light actually created Vitamin D. Vitamins found in milk, cod liver oil and fresh flesh have been supposed to have come ultimately from plants that carried such vitamins...
...Museum, the Railway Exchange, the Continental & Commercial Bank. He built the Selfridge stores in London. He put up the first Chicago skyscraper, for Gumman Wrigley, and the Straus skyscraper. During the War he was given an army of 70,000 men and, accountable only to President Wilson, built powder plants in West Virginia and ran them up to production of three and a half million pounds per day. At present he is occupied only with a $100,000,000 railway terminal in Philadelphia, one nearly as costly in Cleveland, the world's hugest aquarium (Shedd...