Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked in steel, automobiles, rubber, etc., management paid all the costs. "Employe representatives" did good work for group health programs, plant safety, sports, etc. but rarely went to bat on basic questions of wages or hours. This saved employers trouble but it was not a cheap form of insurance. Even in companies (Bethlehem included) where E. R. P. worked best, it cost employers time and money to keep it going...
Gathered from all parts of the world, more than 48,000 sheets of mounted plant specimens were added in the past year to the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University, making a total collection of 994,704, the greatest in America and the finest in the world in North and South America flora, Merritt L. Fernald, Director, and Fisher Professor of Natural History, said today in his annual report...
...most extensive gift was a collection of thousands of sheets of plant specimens gathered during many years by Professor J. Franklin Collins of Brown University...
...Plant exchanges were made in the year with more than fifty institutions in the United States, and with institutions in twenty-three foreign countries. Thirty investigators from Europe and America came to the herbarium to study...
...Steel official last week would admit to such plans. But the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio was so worried about its 1,600-man plant that it appealed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Four other Big Steel plants (in Monessen and New Castle, Pa., Elwood, Ind., Cambridge, Ohio) have lately closed...