Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francis Chamberlain, only son of the Prime Minister, was on holiday. Most Britons had forgotten that the Chamberlains had a son; British picture agencies, deluged with requests for his photograph had none. Young Chamberlain has been employed for a year as a $25-a-week apprentice at the Witton plant of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., where he is learning the armament business from the bottom...
Hormel's new scheme, an adaptation of the profit-sharing idea, was worked out after Jay Hormel figured that 80% of his Austin plant's income went to employes in wages, 20% to stockholders in dividends. Although last year's $1,031,000 net income would have given workers no extra money under the plan, Packer Hormel thinks his program may inspire efficiencies, hence increase profits...
Hormel & Co., still in the van of the parade, last week came out with something brand-new, a "joint earnings plan." During the current fiscal year (ending October 1939) the total of all profits and wages of Hormers Austin plant will be reckoned up. At year's end this theoretical kitty will go 80% to employes, 20% to stockholders. If the employes' 80% fails to cover the pay they have already received, they will get no more. If it more than covers their pay, the surplus will be divided 80-20 until the workers have been given four...
Poking behind some furniture in a shed near the McKesson & Robbins plant in Bridgeport, Conn, one day last week, Post Office Inspector Samuel MacLennan found two old ledgers. They contained the record, written in his own hand, of 16 of the 18 years that Philip Musica lived and swindled as F. Donald Coster. Confronted with the diaries, the three surviving Musicas promptly pleaded guilty to violation of the Securities & Exchange Act. SEC Examiner Adrian S. Humphrey thought them so important that he adjourned his inquiry until the ledgers had been studied...
...Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote, using an upturned wheelbarrow for a desk. On it he wrote As I Lay Dying, rewrote Sanctuary, laid out his series of connected novels dealing with the mythical, haunted...