Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accomplished under the leadership of Dr. John D. Finlayson, then president of Fairmount College and later chancellor of the University of Tulsa. From an enrollment of about 400 in 1927, the University of Wichita has grown rapidly, having an enrollment of over 1,500 in 1936. The equipment and plant have kept pace with this growth...
...great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most of the big commercial transports but such famed planes as the Josephine Ford which Admiral Byrd flew over the North Pole. Volatile, ambitious Tony Fokker wanted to make Teterboro the No. 1 U. S. airport. He might have succeeded had not Knute...
...scene, but Oshawa's police chief maintained order, even without calling on his 17 men, by taking 50 strikers as unofficial deputies to enforce observance of the laws for peaceful picketing. When some 77 office workers and other non-union employes including a dozen girls went into the plant and operated the parts & service department, shipping out truckloads of spare parts to dealers, the incensed strikers screamed "Bums!" "Scabs!" but did no violence...
...Pont has manufactured insecticides (Bordeaux Mixture, Calcium Arsenate, Dutox, Spreader & Sticker, Lime Sulphur Solution) since 1929. Its new laboratory is devoted to war on all sorts of pests- insects, fungi, worms, bacteria, weeds, rodents, marine plants, marine animals- and claims therefore to be unique. On its staff are two plant pathologists, six entomologists, four chemists, some 20 assistants. With an initial investment of $100,000, the laboratory's operating cost is expected to be $125,000 a year. Object is to find new and better insecticides which Du Pont can sell to farmers, nurserymen, fishermen, manufacturers, housewives...
...Lockheed developed the fast, twin-motored, ten-passenger Electra, which immediately became as much the darling of little airlines as the 14-passenger Douglas DC2 simultaneously became of big. When the Electra was launched, Lockheed had 200 employes. Last week the payroll was over 1,400, the plant had just been doubled and all factory hands given a 6?-per-hr. raise. Reason: nearly 100 Electras have been sold in the U. S., Rumania, Poland, New Zealand, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Alaska, Venezuela, Mexico and England...