Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas A. Edison, Industries: the fair-sized electrical apparatus business that the Edisons salvaged from the late great Thomas Alva's historic inventions. The Roosevelt Administration was not a month old when President Edison, whose politics were previously recorded as Republican, plastered the walls of the Edison plant in West Orange, N. J. with a message urging his 3,000 employes to "get going" behind President Roosevelt. "Buy something-buy anything-anywhere! Paint your kitchen. Send a telegram. Give a party. Get a car. Pay a bill. Rent a flat. Fix your roof. Get a haircut. See a show...
...opportunity to become acquainted with the U. S. Navy and his new chief during the War when his father served as President of the Naval Consulting Board under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. During those years Charles Edison supervised the manufacture of war materials at the Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while...
...Wartime ship-building boom the Hydes again sold out, a move which proved very smart indeed, for by 1925 Bath Iron Works was closed down tight. It stayed closed, except for a brief period of use as a fibre goods plant, until 1927. Then it was taken over by William Stark Newell, a seasoned shipbuilder who had done a turn in the Bath Iron Works as a riveter during a summer vacation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, worked up to works manager...
...Every spontaneous move to create a corporate social life is encouraged. All companies go in for annual picnics, outings, field days. Chrysler has its choir, Chevrolet its glee club. General Motors office workers have a luncheon club, most popular speaker being Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen. General Motors plant workers go in for athletic clubs. Henry Ford's specialty remains a high minimum wage...
...Fair. Promoter Andrews, who had had permission to sell the Dry Shaver at the Fair along with his own Lektrolite cigaret lighter, claimed Midwestern distribution rights. Colonel Schick denied the claim. Irate Promoter Andrews proceeded to work out and manufacture in Stamford, Conn., not far from the Schick plant, a rival electric razor called the Packard Lektro-Shaver. Colonel Schick sued Dictograph for infringement of patent. Mr. Andrews, who owns 20 shares of Schick stock, replied by bringing suit for mismanagement against the Colonel, who owns all the rest of Schick's 5,620 shares...