Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best means, he concluded, would be to set up a great Industrial Adjustment Board to make contracts with corporations as AAA once did with farmers. These contracts would specify how much each plant should produce, how many workers they should employ, how high wages should be. what prices should be charged. For fulfilling these contracts each business would receive benefits (like AAA benefits) paid for by production taxes (like processing taxes...
With Temple, President Beury had done better. Raising $6,000,000, he built a twelve-story classroom building, a student centre, a new plant for the school of medicine. He acquired a school of chiropody. In 1932 he signed up Glen Scobey ("Pop") Warner to coach football in a new stadium whose 40,000 seats have since been faithfully filled...
Fels & Co. is a family-owned concern with a model 23-acre plant in Philadelphia. Like its soap formulas, its production, profits and other internal affairs are deep Fels secrets. Last week, therefore, U. S. financial editors rubbed their eyes when they received a brief news release announcing that Fels & Co. had just paid its 35th annual employe bonus. Lowest payment amounted to 22½% of a worker's yearly wages. Attributed to President Fels was this statement: "We are happy that through depressions as well as in periods of prosperity . . . we have been able to pay a bonus...
...Lowell power plant one freezing midnight, the cab of a traveling crane operated by one John McCoy, 47, fell, landed on a steel girder 50 feet above the ground. John McCoy, finding his right arm vised between the girder and the roof of his cab, let out a yell that brought firemen, a priest and a doctor...
Kenneth V. Thimann, visiting lecturer on Botany, from California Tech., has been appointed assistant professor of Plant Physiology for three years...