Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Steel Front. Inside the Republic plant near which the bloodshed had taken place, newshawks found that some 1,000 non-strikers were not having a bad time, playing baseball and ping-pong in off hours. But Chicago's Mayor Edward J. Kelly acted to end their cloistered life. He wrote Republic Steel a polite letter declaring that the men were living in quarters (a wire mill) not designed for residence, an infraction of the city's health and housing ordinances. They would have to be evacuated within 48 hours. When the time expired, the company shunted 21 Pullman...
...Ohio's Mahoning Valley, site of several Republic and Youngstown plants, other maneuvers were afoot. Basic strategy of all three steel companies was to sit tight, wait for back-to-work movements to start among such of their workers as were not actively allied with the S. W. 0. C. strike. They counted on aroused public feeling to assure protection for men going back to work. The Youngstown plants were entirely shut down, in charge of company maintenance men. Republic plants were in partial operation. All were in a state of close siege by strikers. Around the Republic plant...
...steel business. "He's crazy," laughed Tom Girdler. But hadn't the company laid in arms in anticipation of a strike? "I wouldn't say in anticipation of a strike and I would say it was some years ago. I never knew a steel plant that didn't have guns and ammunition to protect its property...
Wasn't it just supposition that the strikers whom the police fought in Chicago had actually been going to attack the Republic plant? "I don't know. Most of them had clubs and weapons. One man even had an old-fashioned razor. Maybe they were out to catch butterflies...
...adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been outmaneuvered by Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also bought one of the new Douglas flying boats and a Sikorsky amphibian. Russia has on order at the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore a $1,000,000 flying boat of the China Clipper type but considerably bigger, has also given contracts to Consolidated and to Vultee Aircraft, both in California. Fortnight ago Russia gave a contract for $370,000 to Seversky Aircraft Corp., Farmingdale, L. I., for two Seversky amphibians plus...