Word: plante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened must not be surprised to have to find their way through barrages of aromatic tobacco smoke. If no obstacle is encountered the librarians will work on the basis that the proverbial tired business man is not at all a nonenity, but an actuality in the business plant across the Charles and needs nothing so much as a restful pipe of tobacco to sooth his nerves as he labors over ponderous volumes...
...silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still on the books though long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce to a friend in London; where, with more strands bought of Benjamin...
...plant of the Harvard Business School has no superior that I know of anywhere," Professor J. H. Willits of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, said to a CRIMSON reporter last night. Professor Willits is the head of the Department of Industry at Wharton School, as well as the head of the industrial Research Work being done there. As one of this country's outstanding authorities in the field of industrial relations, labor, and production, he is giving two lectures this week to the first year class of the Harvard Business School and is presenting cases to the second year...
...Steel Record. Last week at Furnace No. 6 of the Carnegie Steel plant at Duquesne, Pa., there was surcease of work. Men and officials hurried about, grinned, shook hands with one another, for they had established a new record of pouring steel. In 24 hours their furnace yielded 1,035 tons, better by 22 tons than the previous record, long held by the Thomson works at Braddock...
...Detroit a great many creatures were stirring. That familiar figure, the man in the street, would have said that Detroit was "dead," "flat" or at least very quiet. But that would be because the Ford factories were shut down and production was at a low ebb in many another plant. Actually there was intense invisible activity-as in a huge household of which the important members had all shut themselves in their rooms to wrap up Christmas presents, cautiously guarding their keyholes against prying children (newspaper reporters) and fretting in secret over finishing touches to their gifts. The largest manufacturing...