Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protesting telegram to Pennsylvania's Representative Haines, had been dead for two years. But two days later A. G. & E. got more & better publicity by producing a fresh letter from Charles E. Small to Representative Haines. Wrote Mr. Small, father-in-law of an A. G. & E. plant superintendent: "I wish you to know that I am the man that is supposed to be dead, who wrote you and wired you opposing the Rayburn-Wheeler utility legislation. I am very much alive. . . ." Early in the week the Federal Communications Commission stepped in, ordered U. S. telegraph companies to produce...
...effort to achieve Labor's ends it had proved, like San Francisco's general strike last year and Seattle's in 1919, a strikeout. Still" on hand when it was over were the 58 armed company guards whose injection into a strike at a local enamel plant had led to the general walkout...
...blew Italian Dictator Mussolini's gunpowder plant at Taino killing at least 33 last week. Up blew two of Turkish Dictator Kemal Ataturk's munition dumps on the Marmara Sea killing seven. And up blew a unit of one of German Dictator Hitler's war chemical plants, killing three...
Sordid, vicious Tijuana, just across the Mexican border, was a place for Californians to get roaring drunk during most of Prohibition. Seven years ago a syndicate of U. S. hotelmen went two miles deeper into Mexico, to a hot springs oasis and there built a complete, lavish money-spending plant, charged high prices, black-listed the Tijuana riffraff and called their settlement Agua Caliente ("Hot Water"). Repeal killed drab Tijuana, merely boomed the horse & dog racing, the Casino gambling, swimming, drinking at Hot Water. Natives of Hollywood, only an hour and a half away by plane, got in the habit...
Hudson Bay's claims were not on Hudson Bay but they were not far from it. Temperatures ranged from 87° to -51°. Major hurdle was a railroad, which the Government-owned Canadian National eventually built. A 44,550 h.p. power plant was installed on the Churchill River 59 miles farther on in the wilds. Turbines, generators and thousands of tons of supplies were dragged in by horse, barge, tractor and sledge. But by 1930 Flin Flon was nearing its present population of 5,000, and the mine was ready for operation. In that year another...