Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...call to the National Guard. Soon 2,300 Guardsmen were in Flint, most of them camping on the grounds and in the building of Flint's abandoned junior high school. Among the guardsmen called to the colors was one Verl Lahs, a sit-down striker in the Cadillac plant in Detroit. His fellow strikers voted to excuse him from sit-down duty because of their "great respect for law and order and the Michigan National Guard." The Guardsmen spent their time at the high school scrubbing floors and standing by, for the violence had subsided...
That put the fat in the fire. Strike Leader Martin had got the sit-downers to evacuate two General Motors plants in Detroit and one at Anderson, Ind. Before starting to Flint to evacuate the two remaining plants, Mr. Martin became outraged. He made a speech to a union rally in Detroit not only repeating previous charges that Mr. Boysen was a too of General Motors but denouncing the Flint Alliance as a collection of house wives and members of the Black Legion Then he went to Flint, harangued a meeting and it was voted not to evacuate the Flint...
While U. S. newsorgans were churning out reams last week about the General Motors strike, Russian newsorgans were up in arms over troubles in the famed Gorky automobile plant. No strike was afoot in Moscow, for Russians know it is useless to strike. There were no fistfights, as in the U. S. There was just deliberate dawdling...
...suggested for motor makers. Last week, however, International Harvester and Reo Motor were awarded truck contracts after the Labor Department clarified some knotty legal points. One question raised by Harvester was whether the hours provisions applied to its other operations such as farm machinery or only to its truck plants. The Labor Department held that only the particular plant making Government goods was affected. In the case of the copper companies all mine operations might be included, which was presumably the reason for their refusal to bid. Reason they finally got the business was that the law permits suspension...
...obvious and basic explanation is increased consumption. But there have also been special reasons for the hot cocoa market. Unlike rubber and tin (see p. 59) cocoa production is not amenable to cartel agreement. The cocoa tree, which was discovered in Mexico by the Spanish conquistadores, is a sensitive plant, takes from six to eight years of careful tending before it yields a good crop of cocoa beans. In West Africa where one-third of the world's crop is harvested, native growers put in an AAA; of their own in 1930 and 1931. Rather than sell at Depression...