Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen or more generations of plant lice can be hatched without the services of a male...
...passed them on to Seth Thomas III and finally to Seth Thomas IV. The Thomases stuck to quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until the merger, when he became GTI's board chairman. He sired two daughters but no sons. After his death in 1932 the clock industry was without a Seth Thomas...
Early last month the suspicion that they might lose their jobs without warning had grown so strong among Syracuse unionites that they called a meeting, agreed it would be worth a strike to get the air cleared. Locals in the other plants voted to go along with them. After a fortnight's silence, the company suddenly passed out ballots at all six plants with a warning reference to the Guffey decision (TIME, May 25). "The Supreme Court," read the ballots, "decided that one group of employees cannot dictate to any other workers. . . . Do you wish to strike...
Balloting in Syracuse was blocked by the indignant union before it began. Promptly the plant manager posted notice of a two-week shutdown, fired 17 union leaders "for acting like Communists," announced that the portable division would be moved, not to Elmira but to Ilion, leaving 800 Syracusans jobless. This looked remarkably like a lockout...
Sincerely alarmed, Syracuse's Mayor Rolland B. Marvin telephoned Mr. Rand, got his assurance that the Syracuse plant would be reopened, that at least part of its $2,100,000 annual payroll would remain in Syracuse permanently if the workers knuckled down on the discharge of union leaders. Braving a booing, Mayor Marvin put Mr. Rand's terms before the workers. They booed. The Mayor then went to New York to see Mr. Rand, returned to try another ballot. On the strength of some 400 votes the company declared the plant open a week after the closing. Less...