Word: plant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the plant while Chinese workers looked on was 45-year-old Briton R. M. Tinkler, a former Shanghai police inspector. When 40 Chinese strikebreakers attempted to enter the mill, a fight followed. Suddenly a landing party of Japanese marines appeared, started to march away strikers and strikebreakers together. Employe Tinkler protested...
Growth hormones have been discovered in plants. The major ones are "Auxin A," "Auxin B" and "Heteroauxin." Academic research on plant-growth hormones, mainly done within the past decade, has plowed its ground so well that commercial hormone preparations are now available to nurserymen to stimulate root growth in cuttings...
...Spending is a 'bad' word. Avoid it like a copperhead. Talk about Government running expenses and Government plant. Talk about putting the Government budget on a business basis, rather than about triple budgets or capital budgets. If spending must be discussed, always remember that every dollar spent by the Government is usually a dollar of sales on the books of some business man. Keep spending firmly associated with sales, wages, purchasing power-all good words...
...forming a corporation to rent equipment to tho roads or guaranteeing loans enabling them to buy it) as one of the surest, quickest ways to gain its end. The figure New Dealers like to quote as a "minimum" of new locomotives needed to modernize the U. S. rolling power plant is 500 new engines a year; at this rate, barely a dent would be made in U. S. locomotive obsolescence. Assuming that Baldwin got what has been its normal 40% share of such a windfall, that its share was all for steam power (though it makes Diesels...
...Woodward Iron Co.'s plant near Birmingham, Ala., a huge centrifugal refrigerating machine is being installed alongside a giant dehumidifier cased in concrete. This installation, first of its kind, is being hooked up, not to any building but to Woodward's fiery blast furnaces where the 57-year-old company can turn out enough iron (annual capacity 450,000 tons) to make it the second largest Southern merchant producer ("merchants" produce pig iron for sale to foundries, mills...